Milestones

into US satellite operator ORBCOMM and developing their own microsatellite series RUBIN. „Large companies[...] services and the ground station. OHB was awarded the contract for the project worth around EUR 320 million[...] . This time, it was the first part of a series of satellites for a future...

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

optimistic despite the confusing situation in the world. My experience as an entrepreneur has taught[...] anyone would seriously deny that space technology makes a significant contribution to the functioning[...] is always seriously underestimated in all the discussions about space exploration:...

Space Encounter: Space debris must not become a tool for a new Cold War in space

. These now add to the dangerous cloud of debris that is hurtling around the world. The USA, China and most[...] to the world that it can shoot down satellites, and thus any satellite they want to hit is in danger[...] explain such a deliberate provocation. The implication is that this could serio...

Destination Venus part 2: Why a mission to venus can spark the development of new technologies

that long (laughs). Seriously, I know what you mean. Well, currently we do not have a Venus mission in our[...] , they must work incredibly fast up there ... Seriously, there may well still be traces of life on both Mars[...] on the surface Jan Wörner, ESA Director General, is convinced that a...

Satellite communications subsidiary in Austria specializing in M2M and IOT

.  As Jochen Harms, the newly incorporated company’s managing director, stresses: “M2M is one of the world’s[...] DE0005936124) is broadening its footprint in applications and services with the establishment of a subsidiary[...] and services. Our existing Orbcomm products give us a very good...

Exploration

, deploy payloads in lunar orbit and is one of the few available landers worldwide with flight heritage[...] an asteroid using an impact probe. The technology demonstration is intended to serve as a dress rehearsal[...] service – the Lunar Surface Access Service (LSAS) , which will offer flight...

How MT Mechatronics is using radio telescopes to help answer the major questions of interest to humanity

findings in the next ten to twenty years, which may even question the way we view the world[...] will have a total collection area of ​​about one square kilometer, making it the world’s largest surface[...] – you’ll have to explain that... Yes, the world’s fastest computer is being built...

Detective work on the oceans

  Many secrets are hidden in the deep blue depths of the world’s oceans. But there are also some[...] work on the world’s oceans is being decisively supported by a small space company in the quiet town of Betzdorf[...] by around 200,000 ships worldwide. However, the AIS data comes not only from...

MT Mechatronics and Max Planck Institute to collaborate on the large-scale radio telescope project SKA

for Square Kilometre Array. The plan is to build the world's largest and most powerful radio telescope[...] for assessing the data they generate. The data volume is greater than that of today’s worldwide internet traffic[...] and services encompasses the entire supply chain from design to...

Destination Venus part 3: Was Venus a twin of Earth millions of years ago?

and there are geological processes on that world which look quite distinct from those on Earth. The geological processes[...] that tell us about the interior processes of the world. And with that information we could then run[...] and we like to take these extremophiles and put them in extreme...