2023-08-11 04:00:00
Ariane 6
The development of Ariane 6 alone costs 4.4 billion euros, almost twice as much as planned.
(Foto: ArianeGroup)
Augsburg/Paris Grass is growing out of the train tracks in front of the old Osram factory in Augsburg, windows are boarded up. Fluorescent tubes used to be manufactured here. The new LED lighting technology made business difficult, a Chinese investor failed, and the plant closed in 2017. The factory site therefore looks like an industrial ruin. But behind the walls, work is being done on the future of Europe’s space travel.
A technician stands on a ladder in the Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) and hits a gigantic steel pipe with a hammer, in the clean room a worker is screwing on a rocket engine. Developers and engineers, mostly young, in jeans and T-shirts, are sitting in the former Osram hall. Your goal: you want to be the first German start-up to launch a rocket into space. And at some point maybe become the European competition of SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space company, which is fundamentally changing America’s space travel.
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