Ready for lift-off? Join us at the European Space Elevator Challenge EUSPEC 2024 🚀 Teams from Munich, Dresden and Japan compete for the best climber model, testing the space elevator technology. THE IDEA The fundamental idea of the “space elevator” goes back to 1895, when the scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky considered building a tower from the […]
50 years since Barbarella: How students launched Germany’s first hybrid rocket and its significance for the future of student space technologies
50 years ago today, Germany’s first hybrid rocket took off, a milestone in space technologies. Developed by students at the Technical University of Munich, it shaped the future. Professor Robert Schmucker reflects on the past, present and future of this pioneering project and the role of the TUM WARR student group. On 12. March 1974,