

ESA Ponders European Spaceports Ahead of Budget Review
The ESA’s director warns that the continent risks being left behind as a new global space race heats up.
The ESA’s director warns that the continent risks being left behind as a new global space race heats up.
The EU has become fully reliant on Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, to get its satellites into orbit, while its regulators hope to bring the hammer down on Musk this month over hate speech regulation on Twitter.
The spacecraft is carrying out a variety of experiments, from testing Einstein’s general theory of relativity, to plant growth in microgravity environments.