Uncrewed aircraft systems – drones – open up a wide range of opportunities for business, science and public authorities. At the same time, the requirements for their safe operation are increasing, as ...
The German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the US space agency NASA are continuing their gravity field measurements from space with the 'Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment - ...
The PLATO space mission will use 26 cameras to search for Earth-like planets around 200,000 stars in the Milky Way, starting in late 2026. DLR is leading the PLATO payload consortium and supplying ...
More than 15,100 offshore wind turbines are in operation worldwide – with China operating more than half of them. China has seen rapid growth in offshore wind capacity in recent years, with installed ...
Am vergangenen Wochenende sind am östlichen Sonnenhorizont mehrere besonders aktive Sonnenfleckenregionen erschienen. Zusammengenommen erreichen sie eine Größe, die mit der jener Sonnenfleckenregion ...
Soot emissions alone cannot explain the formation of contrails, as recent atmospheric research findings show. With extremely low-sulphur fuels, volatile organic compounds and lubricating oil vapours ...
On 26 September 2023, the DLR Robotics and Mechatronics Center in Oberpfaffenhofen opened its Moon-Mars test site. Among other things, the test site allows researchers to test their exploration robots ...
With the BALIS test infrastructure, DLR is developing and testing fuel cell electric propulsion systems with output in the megawatt range. The DLR team has reached a first milestone; operating two ...
Glaciers worldwide are losing an average of 273 billion tonnes of ice per year. This average figure masks a significant acceleration of ice loss over the past decade. The DLR satellite mission ...
Space radiation poses a significant health risk during long-duration astronaut missions. To develop protective solutions, comprehensive and consistent radiation data is required from beyond low-Earth ...
One of the very first commands I sent to the International Space Station (ISS) as a flight controller, many years ago, was to one of our external experiment platforms on Europe's Columbus research ...
Am 10. Juni 2026 hat Alexandra-Gwyn Paetz vom Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt die DLR Quantencomputing-Initiative (DLR QCI) besucht. Im Innovationszentrum Hamburg ...