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New Technology Center for Drone Security opens in Cochstedt

On 18 August 2026, the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space and DLR opened the new Technology Center for Drone Security. At DLR's sites in ...
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Erhöhtes Sonnensturm-Risiko – DLR beobachtet Weltraumwetter in Echtzeit

Am vergangenen Wochenende sind am östlichen Sonnenhorizont mehrere besonders aktive Sonnenfleckenregionen erschienen. Zusammengenommen erreichen sie eine Größe, die mit der jener Sonnenfleckenregion ...
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GRACE-C – German-US-American environmental mission has been extended

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 - ...
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China leads in offshore wind energy – Germany and the EU fall behind

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 ...
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DLR and NASA continue joint space radiation research with DLR radiation detector

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 ...
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Zukunftstechnologien für den Katastrophenschutz

Extremer Regen, Pegelstände steigen, Überschwemmungen – innerhalb von kürzester Zeit müssen Menschen gerettet und kritische Infrastrukturen gesichert werden. Wie kann das gelingen, wenn auch Energie-, ...
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BALIS test system components cross megawatt threshold for the first time

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 ...
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Déjà vu in space: ACES atomic clock experiment installed on the ISS

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 ...
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DLR bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften in Dresden

Das DLR beteiligte sich am 26.06.2026 an der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften in Dresden. Das DLR-Institut für Softwaremethoden zur Produkt-Visulisierung und das DLR_School_Lab TU Dresden gaben ...
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Moon and Mars test site for robotic missions

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 ...
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BMFTR-Abteilungsleiterin Alexandra-Gwyn Paetz zu Besuch bei der DLR QCI

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 ...
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EnMAP enters the Era of Big Data for Hyperspectral Foundation Models

A novel hyperspectral data product from the EnMAP satellite mission is readily available for geospatial analytics through EOC Geoservice. Based on, the dataset ...