LONDON — The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is looking to purchase satellites capable of jamming other spacecraft and inspecting objects in space, and it wants to do so on tight […]

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Space agencies working on the NASA-led Artemis lunar exploration campaign said they plan to continue work on their contributions despite NASA’s current budget uncertainty, even as some consider alternative cooperation.

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International space agencies stressed the importance of international partnerships with the United States and each other at Space Symposium April 9, as geopolitical shifts and an escalating trade war challenge the space industry.

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PARIS – Planet Labs Germany GmbH announced a contract Sept. 16 to provide Earth-observation data and services to the German Space Agency DLR. The value of the three-year contract was […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – Qube, a German cubesat, is preparing to test quantum key generation and distribution via optical link. Mission operators in Germany made contact with the 3.53-kilogram Qube approximately […]

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European governments and launch companies hailed an agreement reached last week on the future of the continent’s launch industry despite questions about how one aspect of that agreement, a competition, will work.

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European government and industry officials say the policy of “georeturn,” which guarantees nations receive contracts in proportion to their investments, needs to be adjusted, particularly to make Europe’s launch industry more competitive.

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Europe needs to choose its space priorities wisely and work to boost capabilities or face suffering overreach, a leading official says.

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The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) together with the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) at the University of Bremen, with the support of the […]

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Rocket Factory Augsburg has signed a deal allowing it to build and operate its own engine test stand at German Aerospace Center (DLR) premises. 

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NASA officials say they believe the latest effort to shut down an airborne observatory is more likely to be successful because of the endorsement of doing so by last year’s decadal survey.

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NASA and German space agency DLR announced April 28 they will end operations of an airborne astrophysics observatory in September.

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SpaceX launched the fourth in its series of dedicated rideshare missions April 1, placing one relatively large satellite and dozens of smallsats into low Earth orbit.

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German space agency DLR began accepting applications this week for institutional payloads to fly aboard a pair of Isar Aerospace Spectrum launches free of charge.

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said he remains confident that Russia will remain a part of the International Space Station through the end of the decade but warned of an emerging space race with China.

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German launch startup Isar Aerospace beat out Rocket Factory Augsburg and HyImpulse Technologies to win a DLR endorsement that clears the way for it to secure 11 million euros from the European Space Agency’s Boost! program. 

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Isar Aerospace, one of three German startups vying for ESA funding for smallsat launchers they each aim to debut next year, has won its first launch contract.

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The German Aerospace Center, DLR, has partnered with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on a planned low-cost asteroid mission called Destiny+, expected to launch toward the asteroid 3200 Phaethon in 2024. 

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The European Space Agency awarded German launch startups HyImpulse Technologies, Rocket Factory Augsburg, and Isar Aerospace a combined 1.5 million euros ($1.7 million) to support development of competing smallsat launchers.

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The Chang’e-4 lunar lander touched down on the far side of the Moon on 3 January 2019, with a German instrument for measuring space radiation on board. Since then, the […]

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HyImpulse completed the first hot-fire test of the company’s 16,800-pounds-force hybrid rocket motor on Sept. 15. Credit: HyImpulse

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A startup formed by rocket engineers from the German space agency DLR is targeting late 2022 for the first flight of a small launch vehicle designed around hybrid engines. 

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To receive FIRST UP Satcom, a weekly SpaceNews newsletter for satellite and telecom professionals, sign up here. TOP STORIES Three German companies have received 500,000-euro ($571,000) awards from the German space agency DLR […]

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