Rabea Rogge is an electrical engineer, robotic researcher, polar scientist and private astronaut who flew on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience, as part of the Fram2 mission. She is the first female German astronaut.
Biography
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 the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in the Department of Marine Technology, where her research topic is Data-driven navigation, guidance and control for autonomous surface vehicles in harsh conditions. She has also been a member of the Swiss Academic Spaceflight Initiative (ARIS) and led a satellite mission.
Private spaceflight
In April 2025, Rogge flew to space as the mission specialist of the Fram2 mission of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, the first human flight to a polar orbit. i.e., to fly over Earth's poles.
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