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P Lea Sophie Cramer entrepreneur left and Irene Selvanathan from the NEUROSPACE GmbH on 12 May 2022 to Guest at VBKI Germany Berlin. IMAGO \/\u00a0Funke Foto Services<\/p>\nP Lea Sophie Cramer entrepreneur left and Irene Selvanathan from the NEUROSPACE GmbH on 12 May 2022 to Guest at VBKI Germany Berlin. IMAGO \/\u00a0Funke Foto Services<\/p>\n
Thursday, April 2<\/p>\n
A piece of Berlin technology is on its way to space. As the NASA lunar mission Artemis II captures the world\u2019s media, a small research satellite called \u201cTacheles\u201d, barely larger than a carry-on suitcase, symbolises a revolutionary step in Berlin\u2019s space technology journey. It launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida today.<\/p>\n
The satellite was developed by Berlin start-up Neurospace under the direction of founder Irene Selvanathan. Its purpose is to test important control electronics under extreme conditions, which will be needed for future lunar robots in a special Earth orbit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During this mission, Tacheles will cross the Van Allen radiation belt several times. The electronics must not only withstand the radiation belt but also work reliably in space. If it\u2019s successful, the Berlin technology could become the standard for international lunar missions in the future. \u201cIf the electronics survive this stress test, they are ripe for the moon,\u201d says project manager Cornelius Joos.<\/p>\n
The satellite is named after the famous Berlin\u00a0Kulturhaus\u00a0on Oranienburger Stra\u00dfe. Based near Kudamm, Neurospace is supported by funding from the Federal Ministry of Economics and founded by Irene Selvanathan, who fled from Sri Lanka to Berlin with her family in the 1980s. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted something Berlin as a name for our satellite, not another Greek name of a God,\u201d the engineer told the Spiegel. \u201cWe want to be there with our devices for everyone who wants to do something on the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"P Lea Sophie Cramer entrepreneur left and Irene Selvanathan from the NEUROSPACE GmbH on 12 May 2022 to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,2052,42,2053,2054],"class_list":{"0":"post-1998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-neurospace","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-satellite","12":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}