2022年11月24日

欧洲空间技术追赶空间X的尾巴11月24日2022 - 3:09点故事(显示所有)美食劳伦斯是一位住在柏林的澳大利亚科技记者。她关注一切流动性:ebikes,自主车辆,垂直起落,智能城市和替代能源的未来像电池,太阳能和氢。这是官方的。法国、德国和意大利,欧洲太空总署的三个最大的贡献者,联手与SpaceX公司竞争。在本周的会议上,欧洲航天局同意保证下一代的未来阿丽亚娜6和Vega-C火箭发射器系统。根据星条旗,巴黎和柏林之间的交易达成前数月的争吵问题上“包括知识产权、出口许可证和预算”。《濒危物种法》要求其成员国为€185亿基金下一个三年的太空计划——显著增加超过25%的基金。这将有利于欧洲太空科技创业公司?柏林将据说只支持未来的项目ArianeGroup(空客和赛峰集团的合资企业)提供项目开放技术从欧洲初创企业,据知情人士透露,该计划。这将如何发展在实践中会有趣。 Germany is traditionally the largest contributor to the ESA’s budget, with aerospace companies like Airbus and OHB heavily invested in large-scale European space projects. Will this be enough to champion startups and ensure their tech gets a chunk of the funding and opportunity? Germany has its eyes on space While arguably not the first country you think of when you think of space tech, the German space agency hosts the Innospace Masters an annual competition for space tech startups. With backers like OHB and Mercedes-Benz Challenges, the competition is not just academic, with categories for ideas already in the innovation or integration phase with existing technologies, systems, services or solutions. This is great news if you want real products to market. And Germany has some startups with compelling use cases. Constellr monitors the earth surface temperatures. Image credit: Constellr Constellr uses microsatellites to monitor the earth’s surface temperature, mapping the water need and availability for agriculture. This facilitates smart crop monitoring and sustainable resource management, making it possible for farmers to identify crop changes far before visible symptoms are present. Similarly, LiveEO provides satellite-based monitoring of critical infrastructures such as power grids, pipelines and rail networks. A simulation of HyImpulse’s new rocket with an fuel combination of paraffin and liquid oxygen. Image credit: HyImpulse Technologies GmbH. And plenty is happening in rocket and R&D with startup HyImpulse Technologies developing a small European launcher for small satellites. It uses hybrid rocket engines which burn solid paraffin with the help of liquid oxygen. This reduces the cost, making them safe, low-cost, and thus suitable for rapid market entry. We’re in a time when many people question the distribution of funds into less tangible forms of R&D against current global challenges like climate change and fuel shortages. The ESA funding may be simply a concerted effort to shift power away from Russia, China, and North America’s space missions. And that’s if you even think they could catch up with Space X. But whatever the underlying motivation, it will hopefully lead to spacetech innovation by startups that will, in the long term, help improve life on earth . Also tagged with