July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... conducted by the head of microgravity science of the space agency launching the campaign (mainly ESA, DLR, or CNES). Each campaign consists of three to four flights of 31 to 32 parabolas in 0.0, 0.16 or 0.38 g (simulating weightlessness and Moon and...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... asteroid humankind has ever visited. Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the DLR German Aerospace Center have donated two AFC flight spares to the Hera mission. An engineering model of the...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
...having governments as customers, because Nanoracks is using its own, self-funded hardware. If I get NASA or ESA or Germany’s DLR as a customer after I’ve created the hardware, and the contract is based on my terms and conditions, then I consider that...
May 2020
An ethical code for living in space
...’s population to create a main document to be presented to legislators, international bodies, various countries and the public. The DLR-coordinated project BIOMEX (BIOlogy and Mars EXperiment) found that samples of organisms including bacteria, algae...
October 2020
Connecting the global space community
... Austrian Science Fund (2013-2015) and the Chair of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) between 2015-2020. The asteroid ‘9826 Ehrenfreund 2114 T-3’ bears her name.
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... a similar approach will be followed for future (cislunar) projects. As another example of this trend, ESA and Germany’s DLR are supporting European companies in developing micro-launchers via grants, instead of developing their own new smallsat...
