Living science at the DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation We are a young, international team of scientists, junior staff and support personnel. We want to shape technological development in ...

The graphic provides a global overview of the radiative forcing from contrails in 2019. Darker red tones indicate stronger warming caused by contrails.

Space Tech Expo Europe is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Bremen, Germany, from 18 to 20 November. DLR will once again be participating with one of the largest exhibition booths in Hall 5, Stand ...

Based on the 1U unit (“one unit”), a wide range of small-satellite shapes and sizes are created depending on their use case and orbit. One unit corresponds to dimensions of 10 × 10 × 10 centimetres.

The two rovers LRU2 (left) and LRU1 working in the LUNA facility. LRU2 uses its robotic arm to position the LIBS (Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy) device housed in the gold-coloured box. LIBS ...

In the LUNA facility, a network of cables were laid across the surface and underground. Tiny deformations in the network can be used to detect subsurface structures. Researchers tested instruments and ...

Ernst Messerschmid conducted numerous experiments during the mission. The orbiter encircled Earth 112 times. After seven days in space, the astronauts flew back to Earth on 11 November 1985.

Sea ice off the coast of Greenland. The data acquisition for this image was performed by TanDEM-X on 2 August 2010, using ScanSAR mode with a swath width of 100 kilometres.

On 9 July 2024, Ariane 6 launched into space for the first time from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. With this new development, the Ariane launch system has been technically advanced to ...

APPARILLIO captures and processes images of objects in low Earth orbit. It can be used for space surveillance or locating space debris.

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