"It will make a significant difference for Germany as a business location whether we have a launch site or not"

location whether we have a launch site or not" Joachim Lang, Director General of the BDI, is convinced[...] its own launch site for micro-launchers   Joachim Lang has been Director General[...] would give Germany a locational advantage. Mr. Lang, when will the first micro-launcher start

#DestinationVenus Part 9: What insights can we expect from the new Venus missions?

of the surface of Venus. And that means that we'll be able to pick much better landing spots for future Vega-type[...] landers. Right now we only have fairly low-resolution data, so the safest place to put a lander[...] is the volcanic plains, which are pretty flat. You have to be very careful...

50 years after the first moon landing: Interview with former astronaut Thomas Reiter

23. April 2019 50 years after the first moon landing: Interview with former astronaut Thomas Reiter[...] 20, 1969. Do you remember where you were and how you watched the lunar landing? Thomas Reiter: Indeed[...] then. A human landing on the Moon is an entirely different challenge. Humankind held...

Artemis, the Gateway and the future of humanity in space

on the lunar surface before returning to their lander and making their way back to Earth. It was not until[...] to land the next humans there and usher in a new era of on-site research. In the medium term, a permanent[...] System (SLS) and the Orion capsule with its European-built service module,...

EnMAP: A new superhero for the Earth

. ... agriculture The mission will be able to monitor harvests, improve the mapping of agricultural land, calculate[...] crop losses and future yields and identify potential agricultural land. ... land management Land[...] planning will benefit from EnMAP’s data. In addition, the severity of land...

Destination Venus part 4: What could a mission to Venus look like?

are the conditions that landing systems bound for Venus would have to contend with. And the atmosphere is not easy[...] . These would slow the rate at which the landing probe heats up, thus extending its life. But this would[...] . In the past, probes have landed on the surface and have also...

Is there life on Mars?

to the probes that have landed there we already know quite a lot about the Red Planet. And Martian rocks can[...] , we will be landing a rover, which will be collecting rock samples. We know that we have to drill at least two meters[...] , will transport the Russian station with the rover to Mars....

Destination Venus part 6: Mechanical rover or atmospheric probes? How do you explore one of the most hostile planets in our solar system?

that this was a mistaken belief became clear at the latest when in 1967 the Soviet Venera-4 landing probe was crushed[...] soft landing on a foreign planet, it failed after just over twenty minutes on the Venusian surface[...] of the surface of Venus in-situ, i.e. with one or more landing probes....

Space Encounter: A satellite from Germany launches a new era in Earth observation

. On land and on water. The earth in countless colours What is special and technologically spectacular about[...] . However, the area on which arable land and agriculture are possible is limited. Overall, it accounts[...] of cities and the progressive sealing of land. However, the many people who...

Space Encounter: Why the exploration of space makes sense, but the colonisation of other planets does not

to the moment when – like the recent landing of the NASA rover on Mars – the mission is a success. Life in space[...] exploration is necessary and makes sense. The subject has fascinated me ever since I watched the moon landings[...] on television with my father when I was a little boy. The idea...