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2 and a half minutes after launch the 2 side boosters detached. 8 minutes after lift off. the pair touched back down in cape canaveral in a synchronized landing. it was another p r coup or space ex and it s bound or ellen musk, who s become a leading figure in the burgeoning sector called new space. in germany and elsewhere. a growing number of commercial companies are now building rockets. software developers use satellite data to monitor gas pipelines and forests. college students build miniature research satellites and launcher rockets. and at the political level, rivalries are intensifying. europe is competing against russia and china to install its own secure satellite network. a new age of space travel has dawned in 2016, an interdisciplinary group called tude sat, was set up here at the technical university of dom stock in germany. these members are working on small scale satellites. i ve often was when i m measuring just 10 centimeters wide. they re cube sats will later be fitted with sensors that can measure gamma radiation and charged particles in outer space. but they also have a special outer coating. happens over the whole of latino satellite as retro reflective film will illuminate this with a laser from down here and see whether the feedback identifies it as hands. i know it s an experiment because satellites and especially keeps answer often get lost after the launch do. so you can t say which one is yours along the, and we want to see if we can find our satellite ivanhoe, who had of his, he vincent cohen was fiano hom, as t. we can also create photo and video recordings from space, which can mean more media attention and coverage, yada of max on and that could get more people interested in space on less and fish . oh, man, auto science of a guy s son. in a few weeks, these students will be taking part in a college competition organized by the european space agency or isa. an important intermediate test of their progress of the winners get to take part in an 18 month professional satellite design training program. miss nicholas comes up. all right, we don t need to have done it all, but show solid groundwork houses up at work which is thorough enough to show we ve identified and addressed all the major issues article support and that what s left or details yet on trim? is that the? no, so yes, this is a big deal for us all from within on bottom. as yahoo! search the dom shot university team comprises around 150 students drawn from various fields, physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians and electrical engineers. they all share a passion for space. several have already completed internships with the isa, the german aerospace center, or other agencies that are when i m putting on for one of the i was in one of the control rooms and got to dispatch a command to a satellite eval, to also to think that that satellite is out there and then it reply steel command. that s just amazing. just because i follow is mostly fellow and i think it was when the space ex operations got all the media coverage that i thought i was. this is interesting and also kind of cool. will it combine space and has good job opportunities? so one of the singing come, many young people have found inspiration in space x. the american company founded by ellen mosque in 2002. over a decade ago, he was still building his 1st rocket launch site in cape canaveral within sight of the famous nasa launch pad, as he was eager to show in company videos, liver. boeing vehicle mosque was also keen to highlight 80 percent of all space x rocket components being built in house. the 1st rocket, the falcon, one was 100 percent privately funded and after a series of failed launches must focused on the falcon 9. this thing is the turbo pump. this is, this is the chamber nozzle, and there s always supporting structure in there with avionics and control val for 3, june 2010, the maiden voyage of falcon 9. well, rebel abandoned the reward for years of perseverance and risk taking back and i know you don t. musk hath of good sight. the sun nissan must had a different approach. so he tried things without knowing whether they would work yet. and in fact, he didn t have a image for sonya to falcon. things like falcon, one didn t work, but he carried on just always is and that s his real achievement. by his own account, he was close to going bankrupt, taught us adama s, dish, dominga banquets again, space. exxon among the shy space eggs has changed public opinion. the more i listened, although i always joke about, oh, the nasa t shirts. you see kids wearing to day that these and how trendy, they are. poke august casa, if you will. you will go ahead. i m with home law from the invoke the 5th, the and that s also thanks to space access, all kinds of, of us space exit. i stuff. space travel is now in its next chapter. after decades of being state run, the american space shuttle blasted off on its last flight in 20110. i left off the final lift off of it, lance shoulders of the flight mark the end of protracted development cycles and hugely expensive production. as shown in a comparison of rocket launches, launching every key low of that space shuttle into low earth orbit cost an estimated $65400.00 compared to rushes. so use rocket at just under $18000.00 per kilo mole. europe s arianna 5 rocket cost a little over 10000 followed by space. x is cut price falcon $9.00, and then the falcon heavy that just $1500.00 per kilo at space ex, development and production or under the same roof. some rocket components are made of a lightweight aluminum lithium alloy. the lower stage is reusable, which brings a range of cost related benefits. german companies are learning from this american example. their micro launchers as they re called, have a payload of between 500 kilograms and 1.3 tons. currently they re still in the development and testing phase. none have actually taken off yet. the photo from microphone from nist, us moves less than the advantage of micro launchers is that payloads can be put into a specific orbit on schedule clients. and even if they are smaller to live close snippets, hint of a big a rockets might be more cost efficient. in terms of price per kilo executed from but clients have to accept compromises. they re cool because they re going exactly where other payloads are also headed. hoops less now, including the german teams promise of faster flight into space. and that the satellite reaches the precise orbit desired by the client. but they likewise have to keep production costs low as the market has become highly competitive. to people who built room, there are over a 100 companies and start us worldwide offering their services by noon themselves. at the same time, there is considerable demand among satellite customers, but the oft often suddenly conclude that demand means that satellites are booming in the new space. industry again, thanks also to space ex, mover sonton with him. since 2018 the company has been launching its star link satellites on a regular basis. these provide internet that can download a 100 megabits per 2nd space x is primarily targeting more remote regions of the world that don t have vast landline access. there are already over 2000 starling satellites orbiting the earth. in january 2022, there were around 4800 satellites in orbit and that figure has since risen. almost 3 and a half 1000 were used by commercial entities. 150 served civilian purposes like research. 506 were government owned, and 411 were for spying and military purposes. the rest don t belong in any one category. satellites had become multi purpose. take the sentinel family operated by the isa, and part of the e used copernicus, earth observation program. the sentinels are used for monitoring the oceans, measuring pollutants, and the atmosphere and mapping landscapes. farmers, for example, can use their data for vegetation maps. these tell them where their crops are growing well and where they aren t. them came. it wasn t as where they need to use less or more fertilizer this the thing satellites are also helpful for monitoring gas pipelines. high resolution images reveal potential hazards on the ground. some offer accuracy to within 30 centimeters, but for now, this is still a niche market talk. and you saw suit that had availability for high resolution data right now is still limited because there aren t many satellites in orbit capable of delivering it in them on the ship abide. but if you look at planned missions, including those by imaging companies, you see that many satellites will be launched in the near future with precisely these 50 and 30 centimeter resolutions, which on tie the centimeter office and hum. this level of detail means new space companies could also monitor the movement of goods at ports for example, or detect a forest fire before it breaks out an increasingly important asset in light of climate change. feed emitter stennis runtime, the many medium sized companies don t know just how much value there is and satellite data sensors and trans our vision and mission is to make people aware of this through various applications, had silver platter, muscle supplying and dive. and we d also like to cooperate with local authorities in the near future when common 9 am done behind launched him together, low cost rockets in a satellite boom are feeling a new phase of the space industry. in 2021, spending amounted to $370000000000.00. according to market intelligence firm euro consult by 2030. that figure is set to rise to 642000000000. the berlin air show, or isla, is one of the premier events of its kind in europe. new space is also a big topic here. i knows i couldn t about nickel. one of our clients is setting up a communications constellation around the moon and a certain famous american player has set their side on mars, last and vizier in west orange dance. obviously, investors from around the world are now interested in space, travel all the use different develop methods for faster and more flexible production solutions. mitchell had been, it s bad sales. it s the dom, start students 1st time at the isla, just 2 weeks earlier. they found out that they had won a different international college competition as a prize there satellite will get a hitch, a ride on a chinese rocket. mutinous sash. josh, no, she actually we lost sight of this because the announcement was a year earlier on the response from all of us. so we forgot about it and thought we weren t going to hear anything any more subtle than all kind of traditional. you hooked up with the said, then we got this really positive news at all. as opposed to you from arizona. mont, now they have to hurry to get everything ready in time for the launch. linda, that s the biggest challenge. it s extremely short notice for our mission to launch a satellite release. so that s what we re most worried about. my lord. given the time constraints, the group are pondering the idea of getting other university teams to build individual components or the body of the satellite. in the meantime, their own research continues. here, they re visiting a company that is helping out with equipment and expertise. the students are fitting their satellite with the reflective outer film to enable them to later locate it using a laser on the cubes that had 6 are cubes that had 6 sides before are completely taken up by solar cells. one partially and the other one is completely covered with the film nicholson opens up. we need to find out whether our film is suitable for outer space and has the optical properties we expect tom dba. and in particular, whether the film reflects enough of the laser beam, they want to see how it compares with a regular household mirror, which throws back over 95 percent of the beam. it s time to test the films reflective capacity. the result 2.5 millivolts. the reading means the return beam is 2000 times weaker despite the very short distance. it s a sobering result. but even that low level of reflection, the students say, might be enough to locate the satellite hundreds of kilometers away. they also planned to attach tiny corner cubes to the exterior, to improve reflection isn t even though they re polished on 3 sides to ensure the light is reflected back where it came from looking to do the commonly used in aerospace known but said this is state of the art instead of the art thing, the pebble sized components cost $80.00 euro s each, however far more than the film for college projects like there s the financial factor is an important one. something that was likely not an issue for the 1st satellite designers. they re only aim was getting a satellite in the space. in october 1957, the soviet union succeeded it. sputnik one transmitted a signal back to earth. sputnik success shocked the west. it come it with the army. those of yet on your own. these in a thought leading border fundings of yet wasn t given dust vargas. now selenium, it wasn t really about function. focus yet, then us put, make all sputnik one could do was go beep, beep beep. it was essentially just to show a power as just like the race to the moon. the off designs and technology were secondary soon. the main point was who s 1st is who s the fairest of them all? he is king. i m for home vista, asterisk assurance, him guns in london. in response to months after sputnik, the americans launched their vanguard satellite into orbit. but the lift off was a disaster. the rock had ascended just one meter 20 off the ground. it was a bitter set back in the cold war rivalry, but then a satellite, a 2nd attempt to launch a space satellite hours long. the u. s. as parallel explorer program was headed by venna font brown, who had earlier worked on nazi germany s b one and b, 2 rockets. and february 1950. 8 of the american media celebrated the explore one becoming the country s 1st satellite to enter space israel and $30.00. that when, if the ally ethel fall is the father of a is an anglican novel of any for the at full length events design. the subsequent decades saw the 2 superpowers pumping vast sums of money into their respective space ventures. eventually launching spy satellites to the militarization of space had begun. the americans were determined to keep the soviet union in check. and in the 1980s announced plans for a laser and satellite based protective shield against enemy missiles, nicknamed star wars. the program never took off. but the battle for space supremacy continued with a renewed focus on military applications, especially for satellites fact to the present. in february 2022, the french city of to loose hosted the use space summit. one major point on the agenda was europe s need for a more proactive defense policy. so they can exist. they said that it is chunky bush. there are now a spy satellites that can communicate with our own satellites, gets you and foreign powers developing technologies for shooting down objects in orbit double did is object. this is the real world now, not science fiction, suppressors and something. some of our rivals are investing heavily in peoplesoft and local fuel chief among those rivals is china and emerging space nation after sending a series of astronauts into orbit beginning in 2003. the country now has its own space station up and running. according to media reports, china is also planning to set up a network comprising up to 20000 satellites, bankrolled by the government. right now, the united states is still the world s biggest spender on space programs. in 2021, they invested almost $55000000000.00, followed by europe with around $14000000000.00. china has been gaining ground with $10000000000.00. less than half of that was spent by japan and russia. both under pressure to respond. the e u plans to build up its own network of internet satellites by 2030. the estimated total cost is $6000000000.00 euros. she s extremely important is drug secured communication. and when i say security is pretty secured, in other words, using quantum technologies to have a specific quantum encryptions which will allow a to protect a government and communication. all big companies, reasoning for defense. the european space agency is itself pushing for more urgency on both the internet satellite front and man moon landings. while you is settling and it wasn t up to the extent, it s vital that we re part of the discussion and of chasing after whole unit. thus accelerate, we need to catch up, we re accelerating and how we use space for society. and also with regard to human exploration here, human exploration, europe space strategy has based criticism. in the past, decision makers have been accused of dragging their heels and being to bureaucratic and of sleeping through the new space trend. and when was vision with the alley on the sex article, you only have to look at arianna 6, an example of collective failure across the board logging of alicia that still unable to fly and is not reusable illustrates everything that s not working here. yeah, listen, i will turn yet the launch of arianna 6 has been delayed several times since 2020, but the rocket has europe s hopes pinned on it and is scheduled to take off and 2023 men of criminals, which the dom shot students have been making faster progress, the universities rocket team are currently reviewing video footage of a test flight event. they attended. a budding racketeers from across germany, relished the chance to fire their contraptions up to one kilometer into the sky. o. the student version is a small test rocket powered by water pressure for in god, which is pouring the water into the tank and the tension mounts. according to the group s calculations, the rocket should reach a height of almost 40 meters, but will the 47 winds put the brakes on their efforts will damage. so bottom line, typically we have a successful parachute deployment fudge multiple of them, which is would you like katie here? not the rocket post flight looks really good to scoot with done. and then here are data on the bottom. isn t that isn t a kitten, as, especially in light of the rocket size when you might think it was a failure miss effort about. but the fact that we launched that, that the principal worked and we had a successful parish deployment, which means that it was a big success if we re close shortly afterwards. launch number 2, rocket science involves a lot of trial and error. that i oh i m 009 ah, the slightest. oh good. a good. this is the sorry outcome of our 2nd flying to the title of the lowest section stayed intact, but the head with the electronics it has been torn apart because the parish it didn t deploy properly at all. the students are now planning to switch from water pressure to solid fuel, which will deliver far more thrust. he the benefit tomlinson business, macau medium term goal is to keep on taking parting college competitions. where teams have students compete against each other with their rocket teams getting under an medium. but in a solid feel, engine is a good option. because if it s straightforward structure function and handling some sometimes and the development time is shorter than an original liquid liquid engine concept significantly phone of physically pick so you can focus more on the rockets other components. wouldn t ducky to constantly in a new generation of space enthusiasts lou. but growing commercialization also means a changing nighttime sky. ready over $20000.00 satellites could be orbiting the earth just 10 years from now or the heavens in danger of losing their magic. oh, the under the stand him as for thousands of years, the starry nighttime sky has inspired natural scientists to ask what those points up there actually aren t and is a pull to the home. the stick to enough was a more profound dimension involved. where you wonder, who has the authority to intervene and say, the starry sky in itself is something worth protect eggs and sweaters. over half of all satellites, including those belonging to starling, are located in low earth orbit or leo, up to 2000 kilometers above earth. medium earth orbit is where the gps, galileo and other navigation satellites operate. loo, do stationary orbit or geo for television satellite circle. the planet is at 35786 kilometers, hulu. some operators like space ex, had been darkening their satellites in order to reduce their reflectance and not ruin the romance of the nighttime sky. but they continue to pose a problem for professional stargazers the honda to live in did and i, we have satellites that leave marks on images and can distort readings of if a satellite is flying right by a celestial object i am currently examining. then it s a problem i put on those who can measure done that the spirit let into could sit. it all comes down to a fundamental question. what, what prevents satellite operators from launching no thames, but hundreds of thousands of them. nothing. and nobody they still me month. the fact is that there are few space regulations of lee. there is the outer space treaty negotiated in 1967 by the un. it s terms govern the peaceful exploration and use of the moon, for example. and the ban on the deployment of weapons of mass destruction in outer space, o, ne, engage them face and moon exploration, and assert, and he claimed national sovereignty over the moon, less fuel, but that this is the province of all mankind. but there seem to be no bounds to the commercialization of outer space. no written stipulations on who can put how many rockets satellites or people into orbit and at which altitude and no regulations on space debris. but then it must have a shuffle. vaughn, to create law, you need the consensus of stakeholders on van. and if a large number of the important party say it s not really necessary to create a law, then you have a huge problem ish problems in these. gus, probably when he, china, russia and the us have a manifest interest in keeping written and legal commitments to a minimum so that they can essentially do what they want was done and conceived martin conversely, vaughn, the, i d say, gosh, wow, the only agreement that exists is that everyone does what they can to prevent collisions, of course, but there s no agreement on any details. tigers jeans with as, as the shop which will hold more satellites means a growing risk of collisions. and there s the growing problem of space, debris, garbage in space. since 1957, there have been around 6200 launches today. space debris amounts to over 130000000 objects. many just one or 2 millimeters in diameter together they weigh in at over $9900.00 tons and pose a major challenge that isn t legal guns. it s like to see rules like in a national park in mood. those who take their trash back home after a mission are permitted to fly, though so don t have to improve and show they will before being allowed to fly again. it has often before defeated. the students and dom shot had been given the chance to send their miniature satellite into space on board a chinese carrier rocket, or launch vehicle as a middle the all with us. but they aren t sure it s politically ok to accept such help from china. owned a not true shambria honest like, and we didn t want to decide this for every one. so we conducted the survey hostess of tennessee, it looks like 70 to 80 percent have reservations or even major reservations the remainder of strongly in favor of us doing the launch fluid us and toss him to launched him as hell was, i don t think any of us initially appreciated the scope of what we were getting involved and mm hm. since that became clear, we ve had growing reservations. and right now it looks like we won t go ahead with the launch, miss vanham. on the other hand, that will give them more time to focus on the european space agency. competition to the earth orbit has become a battle ground for conflicting political interests and also a new and lucrative economy. whether the various business models of the burgeoning new space sector will ultimately succeed in taking off remains written in the stars . ah, ah, ah, several dead and wide wing extremist, i suggested again, well, maybe a couple late and burned in south africa. people with disabilities more likely to lose their jobs. in the pandemic black lives matter. shiny spotlight on racially motivated police violence, same sex marriage is being legalized in more and more countries. discrimination and inequality are part of everyday life. for many, we ask why? because life is diversity to make up your own mind. d. w. need for mines. ah ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin. ukraine acknowledges russian games near bach looped. ukrainian commanders describe the battle field situation as extremely tense . russian horses, including soldiers from the wagner group are said to be making.