Rabea Rogge | |||||||||
Birth Place: | Berlin, Germany | ||||||||
Nationality: | German | ||||||||
Alma Mater: | ETH Zurich | ||||||||
Occupation: | electrical engineer, robotic researcher and polar scientist | ||||||||
Known For: | Private astronaut aboard Fram2 | ||||||||
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Website: | https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/rabea.rogge |
Rabea Rogge[1] is an electrical engineer, robotic researcher and polar scientist who is currently scheduled to be the first female German astronaut on a SpaceX mission in late 2024.[2]
Rabea was born in Berlin and studied in Zürich, specializing in arctic robotics. She obtained her master's degree in electrical engineering at ETH Zurich, currently pursuing PhD from a university in Norway, where she was a member of the Swiss Academic Spaceflight Initiative (ARIS) and lead a satellite mission.[3]
In August 2024, SpaceX announced that Rogge would be mission specialist of the Fram2 mission of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, which aims to be the first human flight to go over the Earth's poles.[4]