What does the future of European space travel look like? | DW News

Space travel is a fast-changing and lucrative industry in which private companies are playing a growing role. India and China have also launched ambitious space programs. It’s plenty for the European Space Agency to keep up with.

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[hinthegroove]

This journalist is a fantastic interviewer 😊

[lukodaian]

It's time ESA stepped out of NASA's shadow.

[aaronwilson]

One of the most sincere forms of conservation is developing raw materials "not from Earth"!
- mining and refining materials where there's little-to-no life
- furthering our understanding of getting back and forth to space
- development and refinement of living and working in space

All of these are boons for the economy and conservation.

[cnvramamoorthy]

ESA also helping india’s ISRO (ground Assistance in moon & sun mission )

[hildormuthafo]

This is great, and finally a story that brings hope. More science reports please!

[Indian_Rajput]

Providing signals are just a gentleman work India also helps countries in navigation signals

[Bushodai]

The future of the ESA are some huge checks for SpaceX.

[mssv]

Minerals, advance tech how to living and work in moon, if you can live in the moon and sustain, many other harsh planet, asteroid can be mined and live as well

[hunternelson]

Okay great spokespeople for the ESA. Great answers I thought

[HansTrein]

Still no word on re-useability... it would be good to hear that they are developing a new Arianne rocket that could land, re-fly, etc but maybe we are still not even at this stage either?

[pauldannelachica]

The Moon is the next High Ground with golden resources

[lenzp]

why do i suddenly feel like there may be, against all odds, a dawn for mankind

[AmonTheWitch]

ESA should send me to the ice moons so i can hang out with aliens

[EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV]

ESA need to cut a deal with the USA and SpaceX to launch Falcon 9's from French Guiana!
Huge benefits for all!
USA gets a better launch site and Europe gets to focus on making crew/cargo capsules that get launched for them on Falcon 9's...
ESA have their own heavy lift rockets to handle the space stations etc
Better idea than wasting money on developing their own reuseable orbital boosters.

The ESA Susie design is a bit iffy....
An oversized space capsule that combines crew and cargo into one ship, so is too heavy to parachute, therefore it now lands propulsively in an inefficient way....
I think ESA only proposed it to join the propulsive landing cool kids club! :D
Not a use case for propulsive landing really.

[Solaris]

Very good news for Europe. Nice. Very happy to pay taxes for this :)

[ravinrabbit]

Exploration is a fine adventure but how about some commercial use of the space? still no own GeoPositionSystem, only necessary communications, no mining ambition... knowing things is nice but affording things is even nicer. And how do you get into competitiveness against privat companies if youre just looking into the stars? Taxpayermoney will be thrown against SpaceX Businessmodel.
So far so disappointing.

[tim_peaky]

no one is going to remember that we helped India.... when o when will ESA start to becaume a competitive space agency.? we can't keep depending on the goodwill of others. we always run behind

[bearlemley]

In the near future if you cannot lift over a hundred ton payload to orbit, you won’t even be in the game.

[mikicerise]

It looks like SLS, Falcon 9 and Starship. 🙄 😴

[mistycloud]

Germans were great in space technology in the past