![OHB says coronavirus may delay satellite projects but won’t cost revenue]()
The slow-moving nature of spacecraft manufacturing will insulate OHB Systems, at least temporarily, from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a company executive.
![German launch startup raises $17 million with help from Airbus Ventures and an ex-SpaceX employee]()
Isar Aerospace, a German startup developing a small launch vehicle, has raised $17 million in a Series A round led by Airbus Ventures and Earlybird Venture Capital.
![OHB defends self-funded launcher effort]()
OHB hopes to have a small launcher capable of sending 200 kilograms to low Earth orbit conduct a first flight by the end of 2021.
![Iridium makes GMDSS progress • Kepler’s next cubesat to test new radiator • Scisys breaks ground in Germany]()
Iridium moved closer to launching an emergency maritime communications service by signing a public services agreement with the International Mobile Satellite Organization.
![Germany trades P120 booster production for Ariane 6 turbo pumps, upper stage carbon fiber research]()
European Space Agency member states have agreed to keep all production of P120 solid rocket boosters in Italy instead of opening a second production line in Germany.
![Germany wants more space startups but entrepreneurs struggle for liftoff]()
Germany might be Europe’s best-performing economy and an undisputed engineering powerhouse. But when it comes to space startups, something is amiss.
![German lawmaker says Trump White House underscores need for Europe’s space sovereignty]()
A member of Germany’s ruling party said the isolationist signals emanating from the Trump White House are reinforcing the need for Europe to be able to go it alone in space.
CNES awarded Airbus Defence and Space a contract worth 30 million euros to build the spacecraft platform and perform payload integration for the French-German Merlin methane-monitoring satellite.
![DLR Renews Cooperation with SNC on Dream Chaser]()
The German Space Center, DLR, and Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) have renewed for another two years their cooperation on SNC’s Dream Chaser lifting-body spacecraft to focus on both crewed and uncrewed mission applications.
![Editorial | France, Germany Find Key to Cooperation in Optical Recon]()
Just when it appeared as though European countries, despite all good intentions, were incapable of collaborating more closely on operational satellite programs, along comes word that Germany is buying into France’s next-generation optical satellite reconnaissance system.
![U.S. and Germany Sign Space Surveillance Pact]()
U.S. Strategic Command and the German military will share space situational awareness data.
![Germany Agrees to Forgo Ariane 5 Upgrade in Favor of Next-generation Launcher]()
The decision ends an impasse that has bedeviled the European Space Agency for more than two years as it prepares for a Dec. 2 conference of its governments.
ESA is proposing to inject 8 billion euros into Europe’s launch sector over 10 years starting in 2015, including some 4.3 billion euros on a new Ariane 6 rocket.
![Germany Insists Controversial ‘Space Protocol’ Protects Startups]()
For startup operators, especially in less-developed nations, the ministry said, the so-called Space Protocol offers the hope of lower prices for space access, much as a similar protocol in existence for aircraft equipment has reduced the cost of aircraft financing by as much as 30 percent.
Germany became the 10th EU nation to join EDA’s program to pool and share purchases of commercial satellite bandwidth for military and government use.
![ESA Ministerial in Doubt as France, Germany Remain Far Apart on Future Launcher]()
The two sides remain split on whether to complete work on a new upper stage for the Ariane 5 rocket or focus on Ariane 6.
