How private companies are aiming for the stars | DW Documentary

Billionaires are setting their sights on outer space. Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos are all sending rockets, people and technology to the stars. Other entrepreneurs around the world also want to join this new contest. Who’ll win the race?
China is also jostling for dominance in space. And when NASA ended rocket launches for financial reasons in 2011, this cleared the way for private companies to compete over a huge future business sector that includes space tourism, satellite operations and raw material extraction. Companies such as Space X, Blue Origin, Axiom Space and many more have already staked their claim to this highly lucrative space market.
More than 50 years after the moon landings, entrepreneurial spirit and scientific progress have rekindled humankind’s dream of conquering space. An extraterrestrial design hotel is already in the planning phase; space raw material mining trials are underway. But state-sponsored space exploration is still indispensable.
The science documentary "New Space Race" gained exclusive access to the German Aerospace Center’s Moon-analog mission "ARCHES" on Mount Etna in Sicily. Using the landscape here as a substitute for the Moon, research teams run trials for crewed missions to space using robots. It’s already clear that if humans are going to land on other planets one day, the success of scientific endeavors such as this one is crucial. Also clear: The new space race has begun.
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[@PedroLopez-rw7qw]

I’m thrilled by the wealth of great information contained in documentaries such as this. Thanks so much, DW. Please, keep on.

[@lambertois11]

You are a paid troll!

[@IWantSoundKnowledge]

Thank the German taxpayer!

[@kyawmin-rb3hv]

Thank u for all making effort to be able to watch it.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!

[@TomNook.]

Popping up into space for a couple of minutes before freefalling back down is literally scratching the surface. SpaceX's Innovation4 is what I consider to be the first commercial space mission - civilians who actually went into space, stayed there for days before coming back.

[@raitheon]

Yes SpaceX is the only one truly making history

[@GrapeFlavoredAntifreeze]

@@raitheonWell there very well might be more soon like Relativity, Rocketlab, and Astra. It’s really just blue origin that makes other companies besides SpaceX look bad, because people equate companies that aren’t SpaceX to playing in the mud like blue origin is, but that’s not the case

[@raitheon]

@@GrapeFlavoredAntifreeze do you know what blue origins goal is long-term?

[@java4653]

LOL. So they flew in a rocket & stayed at NASA'S ISS, returning the same way as Apollo 50 years ago. That's not anything special at all. Somebody needs to explain to this MuskCult member that SpaceX is just a rocket company. MuskCultists will exaggerates anything.

[@AspiringD3v]

who knows, maybe Virgin Galactic the other commercial space companies may earn enough money to design and manufacture larger, more robust civilian spaceliners, like 747's but for space

[@ilkoderez601]

Not quite as good as the space mining DW documentary but still fun to watch. Thank you DW!

[@rinner2801]

"When you go outside to work on it." I can barely contain my envy.

[@SpaceCafeCanada]

Great job DW, I'm inspired...

[@DWDocumentary]

Thank you for your comment!

[@finntroll1000]

Im excited as a human what we are going to accomplish 30 years from now

[@frauyodortmund]

Wonderful documentary by DW yet again! Well done guys!

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and for your constructive feedback! :-)

[@josephgitahi2090]

Highly appreciate your documentaries DW 👍🎉

[@theElrin]

We should be going into space TOGETHER not as “nations” WE are planet Earth!

[@malikairadmanovick1248]

We are on the precipice of the unknown and unimaginable becoming very much understood and commonplace, how exciting an age we live in.

[@morenofranco9235]

Excellent documentary. Always wonderful to see Imagination in Motion. Humanity has come this far by making dreams into reality. We have to remain unstoppable. Thank you, DW.

[@subninja8069]

HUMANITY FUCK YEA!!!

[@SaveOurDisabilityFund]

Yes private industry is finding new ways to destroy the planet every day.

[@java4653]

LOL. The delusion here. "Unstoppable?" Like Iraq+Vietnam? You are just more proof that Idiocracy is here now.

[@malikairadmanovick1248]

"Only twelve people have set foot on the moon".. umm that's actually super impressive, don't downplay our successes

[@bearbones4347]

Haha yah right.😂😂😂😂 delusional

[@malikairadmanovick1248]

@bearbones4347 delusions are the ignorance of not recognizing that we went from trees and caves to other planets. If you can't marvel or at the least appreciate the advancement in ingenuity and understanding from a historical perspective, then I feel sorry that you lost that sense of wonder my friend.

[@JigilJigil]

And what makes it more impressive is that it was in 60s and 70s, over 50 years ago.

[@TheStockwell]

The Wright Brothers made the first powered flight in 1993. Sixty-six years later, people were walking on the moon. No. Wait. I keep forgetting that D.W. Griffith faked the flight at Kitty Hawk. He did it on a soundstage in Fort Lee, New Jersey! 😂

[@prime12602]

Nobody is downplaying except you.

[@arbaz79]

As always an amazing documentary by DW 👍.

[@DWDocumentary]

Glad you think so! Thank you for watching :)

[@Toddis]

Ideally a moon base could be built underground, to shield from radiation, easier climate control, resistance to impacts, etc.

[@ekkeekie7537]

yeah good luck with that

[@craigmackay4909]

Elon musks.“The boring company “ they only really talk about Tesla and space x .

[@joelmulder]

And not even any need to make your own holes, there’s already plenty of lava tubes. Literal free real estate.

[@ashutoshtripathi9666]

I do humble requests to all space companies across the world Please don't make space as a dustbin, you're destroying earth but stay away from space, everything is not for your enjoyment.

[@alejocatano8352]

We need to keep pushing for the skies, it’s our nature to explore and our only hope for real future

[@carlos-ks3tu]

@@SpaceX-Falcon-Heavy we can do both,you know how much we spend in armies and wars lol????

[@prime12602]

@@SpaceX-Falcon-Heavyso we should stop progress? 😂 World won't wait for anyone lmao.

[@ekkeekie7537]

we went to the Moon and found there is no reason for us to go there. Now they are trying to sell people the "colonizing Mars thing" which will never happen because again, Mars is a shitty planet with no use.

[@wamnicho]

​@@prime12602with declining birthrates, it won't happen

[@prime12602]

@@wamnicho we are 8 billion even if 90%disappear it won't stop the growth.

[@NutriApp]

@1:13 "Image the year 2028. An European lander has landed on the moon's south pole..." Well you do not need to imagine and wait 5 more years. India's lunar mission took off yesterday and is en-route to touch down on the South Pole in a month's time.

[@leonardohernandezcabrera7541]

I'm worried this will end up being a cyberpunk dystopia

[@cerealkiller9617]

This is amazing!! 🥰🥰

[@theboatgoat]

Excellent documenry, im very much looking forwardto this new era of commercial spaceflight

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts! Where would you like to travel?

[@theboatgoat]

@@DWDocumentary I’d be quite happy doing a suborbital hop, or LEO, or the Moon… ah what the hell, let’s go to Mars

[@1World1Love]

Highlights: ​0:09 - Blue Origin launched its first trip for space tourists. ​1:13 - A European lunar lander has just reached the moon's south pole, private companies will touch down here. ​5:13 - The United States had won the race to land a person on the moon. ​12:07 - The development of the MaMBA habitat is still in the early stages. ​14:10 - We have to learn how to work in a nearby environment that's not that different from Mars. ​18:07 - China is pouring money into space exploration. ​21:57 - Kayla Barron worked outside to support the space station. ​23:22 - Many astronauts describe their experience as transformative. ​25:20 - Axiom Space is building the first commercial space station. ​31:46 - SpaceX and Blue Origin are counting on reusability. ​34:13 - The private sector has finally taken an interest in space exploration. ​36:08 - ARDEA contains all the computational components and the cameras. ​38:15 - Luxembourg is a driving player behind a new idea: space mining. ​41:31 - Europe is always in the shadow of NASA when it comes to space exploration.

[@IanG99]

Bumping this up. Thanks for this highlights

[@javierderivero9299]

HELLO!! >>HELLO!!....If you think ESA hasn't decreased the differences between NASA and ESA....you are totally WRONG!!!....50 years ago ESA was NOTHING!!!....I repeat NOTHING!!! in comparison with NASA ...at the time NASA had already put men on the moon in a 20 years space exploration....Today ESA has been able with Ariane 5 put James Webb telescope, service the ISS, build a ISS module,JUICE a full research lab and sent to Jupiter, it's building the Sevice module for Artemis, planning a moon station, etc and so on..Ariane 6 will be able to send astronauts with SUZY...don't make the same mistake... China as NOTHING in Space 20 years ago ...te same is happening with Europe and you don't even notice..

[@tetzet3254]

Beysows first whinny launch in the orbit 😂

[@anpham7574]

This is really helpful Thanks a lot

[@harryhole5786]

Tax them by 300% then it's finished with pollution for Holiday trips of egocentric people ! Ah non, they want to travel "'tax free"' and even have subventions for their "urrrgh" they are spreading around the globe. A "Great step" for mankind will be: so send those egocentric personalities out into space: one way.

[@PrinceKumar-hh6yn]

Professional Documentaries r so well presented that it feel like a totally dreamy world like movies

[@hungcapitalll]

Rocket Lab to the Future!

[@juki0h391]

I wish I was born right at the moment we just discovered a way to travel to another habital plant. I would jump right on board and go help build a new civilization.

[@wiyonogiman4267]

Yes, and you are born in poor and dangerous neighboorhood 😂

[@keepitreal2902]

The old civilisation still needs plenty of work

[@Tate525]

It isn't civilization no more, we living among gangsters and thugs

[@icarus387]

With advancements in biotechnology and medical prostheses, someday we can artifically extend our lifespan by 150 years or even longer.

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

Everyone wants the end product but few realize that the process to gain it should be supported too. My point is support the process people are going through to achieve great things. Because that support will lead to those great things.

[@benediktmorak4409]

perfect timing after the story of the imploded submarine...

[@dedetudor.]

Right? And I remember the Challenger that exploded . they had been warned about O-rings and temperature.

[@Привид_Бандери]

Oh but they'd never try to bank on others misfortunes... C'mon now... 🙊

[@bearbones4347]

Haha I can't swim. They did nothing.. 😂😂😂😂 least we got rid of pedophiles

[@bearbones4347]

​@@dedetudor. Nobody was on challenger was a hoax

[@_Painted]

Death is the price of living. Why fear death when you know it must come? Or do you want to spend your short life in denial and paralyzed by fear? If you have a spirit of exploration, you will understand that the need to explore is stronger than any fear.

[@edlee8949]

Why are there no such private space companies in Europe?

[@JoseLopez-eo4ze]

0:14 - and let's not forget on board was also Hamish Harding - the guy that just died a bit ago in the submarine implosion. Maybe more regulations?

[@bearbones4347]

Lmao tracking for everybody. U notice

[@33mavboy]

it was said by william bill cooper that you could create your own atmopshere, your own gravity field by creating bodies of water, they did it on the moon apparently.

[@sandboxaccountz.zy.7012]

imagine the guy who solved the problems they have in this video, like the falling arm for example how far we would be if progress was our main goal

[@Jahguaar]

Knowledge supports growth.

[@NicholasNerios]

Which ever company builds the millennium falcon star ship first will control space resources

[@Jowanoofy_ZO]

Ncie congratulations We are in Planet Exploration space era!!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

[@Joemondaking]

I could be wrong but we are able to witness one of the greatest technological advancements and a turn in human habitation. Not only are we working on nuclear engines to power these ships to go faster for a longer period of time but set up living quarters on other planets to ensure the human race survives and to study. Very cool

[@Atipat12]

AMAZING 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@seesawprinciple]

Rejuvenation of Aerospace Engineering.

[@shockcat5988]

This wasn’t the lady who allegedly drilled a hole in the space station to get out of being up there was it?

[@ToneyCrimson]

Im from the year 2035. Heard on the news some billionairs space station exploded. The reason given was cost cutting i heard, crazy huh?

[@Upgraded4552]

If space mining is ever to succeed, it will crash commodity markets for minerals as extraterrestrial sources will flood markets and make such minerals cheaper - unless demand is able to absorb such resources faster than they are being supplied or recycling is altogether done away with to allow for faster consumption. Great documentary by the way. Thank you DW.

[@uliseso.b.d7302]

What a time to be alive 🤘😎

[@thomasdanielsen9941]

"who would be the first nation to land people on the moon?" we are still waiting for it to happen.

[@sandeepkshetri8678]

The future of Future 🔮🔮🔮mind blowing

[@emmanuelm361]

It's certain that when we are able to construct a "Space Forge" things are going to change dramatically. DJI should be able to help for the drone problem.

[@OasisTales.]

I was fumming to ask the question ! thank you so much lol 13:25

[@couttsw]

If ESA wants a more active role, build your own space station. Doing is better than talking or leeching off the US.

[@ELECTRO-DESTINY]

We Can’t Even Understand Our Oceans Never Mind Space Exploration 🤯

[@ELECTRO-DESTINY]

@anthonykelley4044 Bro, Are you Serious Show Me & the Rest of Us the Proof that We have Explored the Entire Depths of Our Oceans, In all Respect your Comment is Rendered Useless, If you Believe this & can’t Prove With Receipts I Wish You Well in Your Thoughts 🫡✌️

[@bibekneupane4192]

There is no obligation to discover space before oceans

[@ELECTRO-DESTINY]

@@bibekneupane4192 Isn’t this where the Problem Lies that Humans make Mistakes & Loss of Good Life. without the even understanding our land & the entire depths of our oceans & we truly don’t understand the real knowledge from our ancient ancestors that has been left behind for us but our generation chose to Ignore everything & bypassing our true knowledge & hidden history

[@elvisngenoh7855]

Bold Moves

[@deshb22]

"No disassemble!". Johnny 5

[@willd1mindmind639]

Actual "commercial" space exploration is still a ways off, but the whole goal of NASA was to do the basic R&D and funding of space exploration and leave it up to private industry to come up with assembly lines to make commercial products for space in terms of ships, equipment and other common components. But as far as an individual company paying for a full space mission to the moon or mars on their own dime. Not going to happen any time soon without some way of making a profit on such a venture.

[@couttsw]

Looks like the German copter is overloaded, use a bigger drone.

[@ReelGag1969]

The mining industry will play a major role to keep human civilization for indefinite stay

[@redcossack245]

Very good show. Thank you for making it.

[@KarthikSoun]

Some one told me Nasa moon landing was shot in Ice Land. Looking at that landscape its possible. 😮

[@athan7199]

@7.16, talking in front of a screen!!... why??

[@PriscillaBarberi]

Why Is It Always near 🌋

[@notthomasjoel]

0:30 Bullshit, weightlessness is caused by them free falling back to Earth, not being 100kms in the sky.

[@michallysek6996]

Imagine if the governments of the countries around the world invested the same amount of money in this area instead of investing in guns. How much further we would be? Anyway, I really like the competition in setting their sights on outer space.🚀

[@pinakidas3545]

1:17 Chandrayan 3 🇮🇳 becomes the first rover to land at the south pole.

[@websitemartian]

yeah right .. 😉

[@alitokat9606]

We can use space peacefully... Sounds weird

[@nick29203]

They always try to slip in a line about being peaceful. It’s a charade.

[@DUBSTEP_KUSH305]

RIP to one of the passenger that was on the Blue origin

[@beneiseoleinmheart5614]

What is the Blue Origin?

[@Entreprenoob]

@@beneiseoleinmheart5614 some controversial billionaires play thing

[@sfguzmani]

The title is really misleading.. It says "private companies" but it's only 1/3 of the documentary's content.

[@Junyo]

"The amount of fuel..." and THERE is the mistake a lot of people make. It DOESN'T cost a lot more fuel to go to Mars than to go to the Moon. The "Delta-V" of going to the Moon or to Mars is, more or less, the same. It JUST costs a lot more TIME to get to Mars, not more fuel. Please correct this HUGE mistake in your video.

[@j.dunlop8295]

ESA had a Mars lander that survived, that's special! LoL In imagination she said! 😆

[@athan7199]

first, tell us how the rockets going to go through the firmament!!

[@Sprejaren009]

dude perfect went on the blue origin rocket the name of this person was coby

[@Frezzed]

1:50 - Technology hasn't come this far - yet??? Yes it has? What have we been doing on mars for the last many years?

[@Behindstage]

You no longer need a station like mamba built over 20 years, drop a couple of starships on the surface and your good. That’s what’s going to happen I suspect. How times have changed.

[@gagsoda8204]

you should have opened this video with SpaceX

[@codycoops7431]

Shocking number of technical mistakes

[@billy111]

And that diatomic powder is only found in the Black Sea region. And is not known for preserving bodies by any other cultures

[@madmesmith5187]

Putting a habitat on the surface is nuts /crazy, they will need resources so mine with robots, and then turn the tunnels into a under ground settlement. Dust storm, radiation all the rest of stuff that could kill you on the surface, no brainer really.

[@Jobiskill]

Nice work

[@NATHANMOORE-q4s]

im dancing squidward.

[@RoyalDog214]

I have a wonderful idea. What if we just start using Carbon-Fiber as the main component of our spaceship?

[@kosminuskosminus6668]

Talking about journalism incompetence : starting a lalala to stars with a company has not reached the earth orbit .... yaaaa .... priceless incompetence SPACEX IS MAKING HISTORY AND DW IS TALKING ABOUT ...? WHAT EXACTLY? YAAAAAA..... EVEN A AMATEUR IS MORE COMPETENT : SPACEX

[@cakakic1988]

Who the heck is down-voting this documentary?!

[@laxide13]

it's giving titan sub

[@DAVID-ql1vo]

Remember people, everywhere the "modern human "touches, it roots.

[@madrx2]

Oceangate, What's next "Star Gate"?

[@itzhurtz1083]

Maximillian eyes are crazy blue, JESUS

[@josephdonais4778]

One would have to go quite a bit farther to get to "outer space". I was born in and am living in "space".

[@anydaynow01]

We are trapped on this tiny blue dot floating on a moat of dust in a obscure collection of stars in one of more galaxies than we can count or even know about. It's time to get our breakfast beverage of choice, roll up our sleeves, do our morning salutations, lace up our boots, and get to work to end our exile and explore the stars!

[@ExplorewithUjjal]

Why 2028 next month Indian chandrayaan probe will land in south pole (2023) ISRO ❤

[@sportsneticshri1835]

for your kind informartion in 2023 Chandrayan 3 already reached south pole of the moon

[@kiikaala]

Actually at the time when this came out, Axiom had done two crewed missions.

[@PriscillaBarberi]

Tell them i am not feeling well

[@India.infotech2023]

Exploring Earth more important then space I think

[@provincialcityboy8485]

Next generation of space race are made by individual who are interested in space, D.I.Y to be short

[@sawnaingtun8776]

Great conquering spaces Columbus's concepts but don't want to became like movies called " Elysium "!

[@thomasnelson6161]

Doesn't mamba sound too close to NAMBLA?

[@Ricardo-lb4so]

Space exploration, i.e. exploration of outer space, is a high risk venture business as there are a large number of variables that cannot be foreseen and need to be controlled. Blue origin and Virgin galactics have launched operations in the low orbit space tourism, which have different characteristics and safety requirement from space exploration indeed. These include ship design, telemetrics, radiation shield, crew training, etc etc. The only company potentially capable to manage an extraorbital mission at this moment in spacex.

[@s.m.1354]

Amateurs, flying to other stars using Chemical Propellants is Impossible.

[@faisalyousuf7000]

Perfect time!

[@slowkr4v890]

0:27 "the rocket shot up over a 100km, high enough for passengers to experience weightlessness". Seriously??!

[@jessicawinslet684]

Aiming for the stars, they cant even get to the bottom of the ocean lol 😆 😂 🤣

[@123works]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gerryhouska2859]

Titan did, just a few days ago.

[@javierderivero9299]

How many astronauts have gone to space....600 and counting ...looks like you are confusing potatoes with tomatoes

[@jessicawinslet684]

@@javierderivero9299 they can't even pull that submarine from 2 . 5 kilometers from the water LOL this makes me laugh so hard.

[@javierderivero9299]

@@jessicawinslet684 Yes the only fact this can tell you is going to space at suborbital is safer, specially with the stricts restrictions and certifications to go to space....not certification with that sub that was totally faulty in design...the proof is how many people have gone to space and how many people have died in space

[@subrankurbhattacharjee6198]

The custom of which we saw the robot and mecanism to install the by product where as the computer in action to problem.

[@thesquire6352]

This is the plot to star citizen 😶‍🌫

[@carpo719]

Perhaps it is inspiring to see people build spaceships and travel Beyond Earth, however I am quite cynical about the amount of money and resources spent trying to escape the planet when we know this is in reality all we really have and we aren't treating it too well. Doesn't mean we can't investigate the cosmos, but there seems to be a running theme of billionaires in cowboy hats wanting to be seen rather than any method of improving the lives of people on earth

[@dedetudor.]

We're in complete agreement.

[@TheStockwell]

Some sobering perspective: NASA has to run ALL its programs with *half a percent* of the US Federal budget.

[@caty863]

So, the billionaires in oversized glasses trying to get africans castrated (birth control) are the ones doing good for the planet?

[@prime12602]

Fixing someone's problem is not others responsibility. it's their money they can do whatever they want.

[@dedetudor.]

@@prime12602 ah ha... Wealthy people are very fond of that statement. Others are more charitable in more ways than investing in and then forcing global vaccination and now the flavor of the day.....drumroll...... CLIMATE CHANGE are you ready? How about that Genetic Literacy Project? How's that working?

[@suserman7775]

Weightlessness due to altitude ? It always amazes me how incredibly ignorant journalists are. But also arrogant, because an idea like that would not have made it into the video if anyone technical would have proofread it first.