The European Space Agency is inviting proposals from the private sector for spacecraft capable of transporting cargo to the ISS.
. “ESA and its Member States are preparing for when the International Space Station is retired: an environment where space agencies are customers rather than owners of space infrastructure,” Frank De Winne, ESA’s ISS manager, said in a statement.
“By launching this call, we are providing the supporting scheme, whereby private companies receive support from ESA to develop services to the International Space Station and future commercial destinations orbiting Earth,” De Winne said in the statement.NASA has been working with its own commercial partner, SpaceX, to transport both cargo and crew to the ISS on a regular basis. SpaceX launched its
to the space station in March while its 28th cargo mission lifted off Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday. SpaceX uses its trusty Dragon capsule for these missions, and now Europe wants somethingEurope has been struggling to establish its own access to low Earth orbit, which has been getting busier with both public and private vehicles. The European space sector was recently
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