08 January 2021
Asgardia’s project for new module to expand ISS
... has created a consortium of established industry players, including Nanoracks Europe, Thales Alenia Space (Italy), OHB System (Germany) and QinetiQ (Belgium), to develop, build and deliver the module As well as supporting commercial development and...
24 August 2022
Moon mission's human-rated European Service Module is giant leap for ESA
... of propellant Prime contractor, Airbus based in Germany, enlisted some 26 European companies from 10 ESA member states - ...Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Spain and Sweden...
08 April 2019
Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age
...of this book focus on Ley’s formative years in Germany, illustrating particularly “how Ley constructed his identity as ...The following chapter discusses Ley’s disenchantment with pre-1935 Nazi Germany before the story moves to the US, where Ley settled...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
...While voluntary, the guidelines have begun to get some traction. In a 2014 report to UNCOPUOS, Canada and Germany presented a detailed study of country-by-country progress in debris mitigation, especially debris created through launch activities. ESA...
June 2015
The day Philae landed: how a rough touchdown still made history at the Rosetta Mission
... heating phase into a stressful day of failure investigation. Together with the operations team at ESA’s ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany, we concluded that commanding the lander to switch-off and on again was the only effective solution. Fortunately...
June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
... taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) were initially analysed by Michael Croon of Trier, Germany, a former member of ESA’s Mars Express operations team at European Space Operations Centre (ESOC). He and others have...
