A new era of space flight: ESA’s partnership with private companies takes off • FRANCE 24 English

A new era of space flight: ESA’s partnership with private companies takes off • FRANCE 24 English

The vatry airport an isolated former military base located east of Paris is the perfect research and development site for Rocket engines Engineers here are testing catalyzers everything went well we’ll go through the data and then we’ll probably do a second test tomorrow after a few modifications to

This former NATO base this startup is able to test its small satellite micr launchers over there we’ll be testing the upper floors we’ll put our space port between the two hangers so our launch table with the installations latitude initially planned to test their engines in the far north of Scotland but

Chose to go to VY instead saving time and money the end all Beall in the space industry as private companies join the race essentially it’s the Silicon Valley mentality of entrepreneurs who arrive with funding and their Innovation they innovate quickly test destroy start again they have private funding and a

Propensity for risk that may be much higher than what we’ve seen in the past 15 years ago NASA opened its doors to the private sector to cut costs and boost Innovation and since then companies like SpaceX have stepped in with their reusable rocket launchers the European Space Agency is now following their jet

Stream it was absolutely necessary because of the current situation we’re in but also because I believe it’s a huge opportunity for the European Space Agency to be more Innovative and dynamic and to reach new players and therefore new fields at latitudes headquarters in Ron The 19m Zephyr launcher greets

Visitors and the 3D printed navier engine is the latest tech Innovation 3D printing enables us to manufacture complex shapes like the iso grid shown here it comes out like this as you can see here we’re able to produce much more complex shapes and increase the number of Trials and to

Reduce manufacturing time and costs because we use much less material the startup has raised close to 50 million EUR more than a quarter of the budget needed for their first launch Engineers are wary of any information leaks that could give their competitors the slightest Advantage the slightest piece

Of information we can give about the technological choices we’re going to make however insignificant they may seem could say competitors months of development time experts forecast that some 28,000 satellites will be launched over the next decade the esa estimates that out of the handful of European companies developing micr launchers only

Two or three Will Survive latitude is trying to beat those odds we’re going to make it possible to efficiently carry out dedicated flights for satellites that are going to be 10 to 20 kg and therefore between the size of a shoe box and the size of a washing

Machine at an affordable price their first launch is expected in 2025 Europe aims to diversify its range of rockets which are currently too big to launch small satellites but this is only the start of the commercial space race I think there are even more interesting areas like the development

Of space services for example for energy access to resources development and health now there’s not a single area of space that doesn’t have a commercial aspect with technological improvements scaling down and cutting costs skills and expertise applied here on Earth can transfer over to space here the Venturi

Car maker is making batteries for its lunar rover the idea is to take Automotive knowhow to take these components and repurpose them for space why to save time and cut costs in 200000 jido Pastor a wealthy monagas businessman bought the car maker his idea a is to go all electric without

Outside funding Venturi launched prototype cars motorcycles a polar exploration vehicle and even a Luna Rover the strategy anticipate demand and create need we’re ahead of the game we’re already preparing a Rover to submit to the esa so we can make proposals instead of waiting for them to issue an official call for

Tenders the flex lunar rover has already been pre- selected for NASA’s Artemis missions with its American and swiss Partners Venturi can position itself on both sides of the Atlantic even bypassing public agencies SpaceX will send the ventu Rover to the Moon in 2026 the vehicle can carry 1.5 metric tons all at

Once to deploy 1 kilogram to the Moon today costs around $1.3 million we can get down to $250,000 per kilo our prices are very competitive so by completely filling the Rover’s payload we generate substantial profits with roughly $6 billion invested in 2023 space is certainly the industry

Of the future but new private players still depend on public agencies to get their deals off the ground because beyond the financial aspect space is still a matter of national sovereignty

SpaceX launched Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket, for the third time on Thursday. The spacecraft is an essential part of NASA’s Artemis programme, a partnership that embodies a concept known as “new space” or privatised space flight. The European Space Agency is following NASA’s lead and has entered this new era of the space race, partnering with private companies and startups to get its missions off the ground. We take a closer look at the French companies making innovations and technological leaps in this industry. FRANCE 24’s Sylvain Rousseau reports, with Lauren Bain.
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