BERLIN (AP) — The German authorities talked about Monday it supports plans for a North Sea spaceport that will likely be aged to launch tiny satellites into set from Europe.
Financial system Minister Peter Altmaier talked about the authorities would act as an “anchor buyer” for the floating launch urged the German cruise.
“We want to reinforce the national set program,” he talked about at an tournament marking the signing of cooperation agreements between the German Offshore Spaceport Alliance and 4 European rocket manufacturers — two from Germany, one from the Netherlands and one from Britain.
Siegfried Russwurm, head of the Germany change association BDI, talked about a spaceport in the North Sea would receive it more straightforward to launch satellites into polar and solar-synchronous orbits.
There are more than 20 spaceports across the enviornment already, nonetheless European set companies currently rely mostly on launches from Russia’s set in Kazakhstan, French Guiana in South The United States and from the US.
