🔥 2024 HyImpulse update - SR75 launch 🚀 in Q2 2024 from Southern Launch, Australia - EUR 4 million in ESA Boost! grants in Dec 2023 (see curious details below) - Stable (stagnant?) team-size, now 55 employees (60 in 2023) Riddle me this… The Germans plan a rocket launch.

Great to see supersonic flight making a comeback. Congratulations to on their successful demo-flight of the XB-1

Announcing first end-to-end production of pipeline grade natural gas from sunlight and air.

Good question. 0 launch capability but you get quotes like "If we do nothing, we will no longer be able to launch satellites because space will be too cluttered" . How is this real? Full article: politico.eu/article/eu-wan…

EU doesn't even have a functional space program or any real launch capacity right now, so it's more like, if you want to do business at all in space, it's with us (the places with functional space programs).

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no need to force when the environment is constricted that there are no alternatives. there are no private offerings for payloads >10 tons until maybe 2028? plus: none of the new space ports in Europe support launches over 10 tons

the "EU ReGulATe sPAce" discussion is so unbelievably premature. No investment environment exists. No market exists. >50% of these companies will fail in the next 10 years (basic economics). But the knee-jerk reaction to "regulate" and kill the baby before its born already has

🚨European launch capabilities: A reality check The chutzpah Europeans still have is astounding. Launch capabilities - both private and governmental - show a structured path to irrelevancy. "But we're developing steadily" - sure, ignoring everything else and assuming things go

"ultimately, we might get to a cost of $2 million for 200 tons to orbit" 🤯🤯🤯

well, it's...something happening at spacehubsutherland and Orbex Space

huuge Everyday Astronaut video on both Rocket Factory Augsburg and Isar Aerospace coming up! footage is from his trip to both factories after attending Space Creator Day in October 2023

casually adding space to "climate policy, economic policy, agricultural policy, energy policy, foreign policy" - "What are the EU's 5 greatest failures, Alex?"

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European e/acc, much needed!

good post on issues Europe's (startup) economy is facing by Andreas Klinger 🦾. both points - investment/legal structures & language - are a barrier for European space corps as well.

oof, NASA analysis of first NASA Artemis flight: "The flight revealed anomalies [...] that pose significant risks to the safety of the crew. [...] identified more than 100 locations [...] recorded 24 instances of" etc. Full report below

wake up babe, new Everyday Astronaut just dropped!! find out what Isar Aerospace and Rocket Factory Augsburg are building 👀🚀