Space travel
Raket builder Isar Aerospace receives EU orders
Europe has hardly been able to shoot satellites into space due to years of delaying in the development of Ariane 6 support rocket. An opportunity for the German start-up Isar Aerospace.
According to the company, the German rocket manufacturer Isar Aerospace has received prestigious orders from the EU and European space agency ESA. The agreements include two missions for a Dutch and a French company, as Isar Aerospace in Ottobrunn announced. Both starts are planned “from 2026” from the Norwegian room port of Andøya. The rocket start-up, based in Ottobrunn at the gates of Munich, sees the way for future institutional starts on board the “Spectrum” support missile.
So far, testing the “Spectrum” rocket has not yet been completed, the first test flight at the end of March only lasted 30 seconds before the rocket crashed. However, the two planned starts in the European mandate are not tests, but commercial flights with payload. The Dutch customer Isispace is a satellite manufacturer that has developed French companies Infinite Orbits a remote -controlled maintenance system for other satellites.
As in information technology, Europe has fallen behind in space in space. At the moment, Europe is hardly able to transport satellites into space itself – a source of frustration for the European aerospace industry. According to figures from the Aerospace Federal Association BDLI, the United States launched more than half of 220 civilian and military officers worldwide with satellites and other payload last year. China scored 67 rockets into space, Russia 20, and India 7th Europe was therefore at the bottom of 4 rocket starts.
The cause is the years of delays in the development of the Ariane 6 support rocket, which was developed on behalf of the ESA. A profiteer of development is the US billionaire Elon Musk, who is hostile to the EU: European satellites are currently often transported to the orbit by Musk’s space company Space X.
dpa
Source: Stern
