• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Satellite data is growing evermore crucial to a range of economic sectors, from digitalized industrial production to self-driving vehicles.

    Companies like SpaceX, with its huge fleet of satellites and rockets, represent dangerous competition for established space-faring countries.

    To start, Dutch company T-Minus will launch a rocket from the German-Offshore Spaceport Alliance (GOSA) mobile platform.

    In the future, the North Sea platform will be used for European microlaunchers — rockets loaded with small satellites — capable of carrying up to one ton into low-Earth orbits.

    The BDI introduced its “NewSpace” initiative four years ago with hopes of seeing Germany profit from the booming commercialization of space travel.

    This leads to bottlenecks in land-based spaceports," Sabine von der Recke, a member of GOSA’s management board, said.


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  • Mathijs@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago

    Why do far north? With a flight plan over land. I just does not sound smart to me.

    • etuomaala@sopuli.xyzOP
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      11 months ago

      Proximity to German heavy industry counts for something, I suppose. But yeah, these things are usually done a little closer to the equator lol