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 ...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
... and Mir Earth-orbiting space stations involving experts and cosmonaut-researchers from Czechoslovakia, Poland, East Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Vietnam, Cuba, Mongolia and Romania, as well as France, India, Syria and Afghanistan. On 27 October 1970...
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...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
.... It is well known, however, that the backyard rocketeers of the 1940s, like Frank Malina (US), Wernher von Braun (Germany) and Sergei Korolev (Russia) eventually received funding from the military to turn their experiments to reality, compromising...
13 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, ...
