February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
...Moon and Mars. This article, based on a presentation at the Asgardia Space Science & Investment Congress (ASIC) in Darmstadt, Germany, in October, explains some of the issues and describes the state of play in this research. Earth-born microorganisms...
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
The 69th International Astronautical Congress held in Bremen, Germany is now over for this year and what a week for news it was. Here are just a few of ...
19 September 2018
IAC 2018: strongest technical programme to date!
With less than a couple of weeks to go before the start of the 2018 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Bremen, Germany, this years gathering is offering the strongest and most all-embracing Technical Programme to date, with a record ...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
...men are widely recognised as the fathers of rocketry for spaceflight – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (Russia), Hermann Oberth (Romania/Germany), and Robert Goddard (USA). Tsiolkovsky published several small books on space travel and cosmology (the expansion...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
... cables for power transmission have already been deployed for terrestrial power transmission lines, most notably in Germany, in Essen and Munich, while superconducting transformers and converters have also been demonstrated in several projects around...
12 March 2015
New rockets on the scene: ESA approves Ariane 6, Vega-C
...demands, especially lower prices spurred by competition from SpaceX. Germany preferred an evolution of Ariane 5 (Ariane 5 ME) while... medium payloads. Just prior to the ministerial meeting, Germany agreed to support the Ariane 6 proposal. Meanwhile, ...
