October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... after the German university, TU Braunschweig, at which they were developed. TUBS-M basalt is an alkali-olivine basalt found in Germany: it is fine-grained and dense and lacks degassing vesicles (see Figure 3). Other interstitial minerals include...
15 November 2014
Pioneering Philae completes main mission before hibernation
... at the DLR German Aerospace Agency, who monitored Philae’s progress from ESA’s Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, this week. “Despite the unplanned series of three touchdowns, all of our instruments could be operated and now...
02 December 2014
Orion service module contract for Airbus
... for NASA’s four crew Orion MPCV deep-space capsule. The module is to be constructed at an Airbus facility in Bremen, Germany. Based on the successful Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo spacecraft that has been resupplying the International Space...
13 March 2015
ESA re-entry vehicle could pave way for reusable launcher
... could have the capability to fly back to Earth for refurbishment and reuse. Two ESA member states, Germany and France, have engineers studying the concept. On the glide toward the splashdown site — located at approximately...
