20-meter moonwalk: How the “Lunar Explorers” photographic work of art by Michael Najjar found its way to OHB

27. August 2020 20-meter moonwalk How the “Lunar Explorers” photographic work of art by Michael Najjar found[...] clumsily over the barren ground of the moon, 380,000 kilometers away from the earth. One astronaut[...] : I grew up with a fascination for the moon. In 1969, when Neil Armstrong was...

Exploration of the Universe Part 4 - Does it rain diamonds on the ice giants?

of magnitude. Light moons and dark rings To date, 27 Uranus moons are known, with diameters ranging[...] from 10 to 1,600 kilometres, of which only the five main moons Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon have[...] previously unknown rings and ten new moons were discovered during the...

Back to the Moon – with tank components from MT Aerospace AG: NASA's heavy-lift rocket SLS launches Artemis 1 mission

29. August 2022 Press Release Back to the Moon – with tank components from MT Aerospace AG NASA's[...] -1-mission back to the Moon © NASA Augsburg, 29. August 2022. NASA's almost 100-metre-high SLS (Space Launch[...] . The capsule will then orbit the moon for several weeks before being put on...

Antwerp Space receives work order for the Communications-Subsystem of JUICE

. JUICE  (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer)  is the first large-class mission in the European Space[...] of Jupiter and the Galilean Moons) : the Ultra-Stable Oscillator (USO) and the Ka-band Transponder (KaT[...] conducting detailed observations of the giant gaseous planet Jupiter and three of its...

"Will you have been with us ..."

, the new race to the Moon in the year of the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, the plans[...] of the Moon for human space flight. With the "Lunar Orbital Gateway" a space station in lunar orbit[...] is to be created, from which not only the descent to the Moon is to become routine, but...

Exploration of outer space: In search of the origins of our existence

. Mars, Venus or the Moon – if you could book a package tour to one of these planets, which one would[...] on Mars. The Moon would be an interesting alternative for me. Maybe there will soon be package tours[...] that combine the Moon and Mars, as a cruise, so to speak. That would be a very...

Space Encounter: New self-confidence in space

is very determined to land humans on the moon again soon. Originally, the Trump administration had[...] for a rapid return to the moon. However, the 78-year-old long-time senator and ex-astronaut will wage[...] this battle with a great deal of commitment and support from the ranks of the...

Space Encounter: Missions to Mars will require more infrastructure in space

to Mars will require more infrastructure in space A moon base could be a solution   May 30, 2018[...] is greatly underestimated. It would be easier to operate a kind of Arctic station on the Moon. But Mars[...] . But I may be wrong. Supply stations on the moon with 3D printer For humans to be able...

Lunar Gateway: Why the European Refuelling Module is a gamechanger for exploration missions

going to the Moon is still relatively easy to accomplish with a single tank of fuel, interplanetary journeys[...] in Earth-Moon space and stabilised in its target orbit, which is a so-called near-rectilinear halo orbit[...] (NRHO). An NRHO is a highly eccentric orbit that on the one hand brings...

The Twenties will be a decade of increased human activity in space

will have landed on the Moon again, and the first stations may already have been installed on its surface[...] and scientific pursuits on the Moon. In my view, this is also true for Mars. Given that these places[...] will not venture much further than the Moon, Mars, potentially Venus and...