Lena Leonhardt's 80-minute documentary "Ganz nach oben" follows Hélène Huby, a career-changer and mother of four who founded The Exploration Company in 2021 to build a reusable spacecraft and make Europe more independent in space, and whose company has signed a European Space Agency contract worth up to €760 million (roughly $890 million). beetz brothers film production made it in coproduction with public broadcaster Südwestrundfunk (SWR), Filmallee and Imagissime, and it airs on October 5 at 22:20 on Das Erste, ARD's main channel, and in the ARD Mediathek.

Primary: LEONINE Studios press release, 23 September 2026