Alan Shepard, der 1961 als erster Amerikaner ins All geflogen war, startet zusammen mit Ed Mitchell und Stuart Roosa zum Mond. Diesmal wartet man beim Start, bis eine Gewitterfront abgezogen ist – ...

With its satellites as well as control and data receiving infrastructure and numerous research aircraft, its various recording and evaluation procedures and its special simulation environments, DLR ...

Astronominnen und Astronomen in aller Welt warten zur Zeit gespannt auf das Wiederaufleuchten eines relativ unscheinbaren ...

The DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation is dedicated to mission-oriented research in selected areas of communications and navigation. Its work ranges from the theoretical foundations to the ...

The JANUS camera system is the 'eye' of the JUICE mission. It will primarily provide high-resolution multispectral images of Jupiter's large moons. The camera was selected by ESA in February 2013 as ...

Ein Netzwerk aus unterschiedlichen Teilnehmern, wie zum Beispiel Nutzlast-Boxen, Sensoren oder Rover, ermöglicht die Navigation und Kommunikation in unbekanntem Gelände. Das dezentrale Funksystem ...

Having access to affordable and readily available energy is a key foundation of highly developed economies. It is fundamentally important to Germany as an economic hub and underpins prosperity in ...

The DLR_Startup Factory is a company-building programme focusing on DLR technologies, offering founders a comprehensive and systematic framework programme for establishing successful research-based ...

Space exploration focuses on the formation and evolution of the Solar System and fundamental questions about the origin and existence of life in the universe. Planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids ...

The Research under Space Conditions programme concerns itself primarily with investigations in the fields of materials science, plasma physics, medicine and the life sciences. The comparison of ...

The research and development activities carried out by DLR in the Space Transportation programme aim to improve existing launch vehicles, pave the way for future systems and ensure that they continue ...

DLR tailors its Earth observation activities to the current and future scientific, societal, political and economic challenges posed by global processes and changes. Earth observation using remote ...