Big science and industry join forces to innovate new space technologies

July 2018: Grenoble, France / Germany – the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) and European Synchrotron

CO2M

missions are funded by the European Union and ESA. The data collected by measuring facilities on land

Successful Launch: ExoMars on its way to the Red Planet

is in good health. The Trace Gas Orbiter and the Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing demonstrator lifted

OHB Group signs Letter of Intent for cooperation with Blue Origin

partnered on a future Blue Moon mission to the lunar surface – Blue Origin’s lunar lander capable

OHB expands activities in the NewSpace sector with the founding of Blue Horizon Deutschland

of enabling sustainable living in outer space and revitalising desolated landscapes on Earth. Both are enabled

Blue Horizon Luxembourg wins contract from LUXDEV to fight against desertification

and systematic approach to reduce desertification on global scale. About 40% of global land surface is dryland

EnMAP: Making the invisible visible

of climatically harmful gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, clean water or land-based ecosystems[...] a growing planet and the availability of agricultural land is depleted. Looking forward, hyperspectral data

MT Mechatronics awarded a contract for the large precision system for the Ariane 6 launch pad in Kourou

will be completing its maiden flight in 2020, is called ELA4 (Ensemble de Lancement Ariane No. 4). In contrast

"Spaceflight in Europe has always been different from spaceflight in America"

that we had to land the first stage again. And then we said: What do we have to do to make this work? That's[...] a completely different approach. You have to experiment, try out methods. For years, we made attempts to land

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

the human species in a third world war. He plans to have his spaceship “Big Falcon Rocket” land on Mars