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The space probe JUICE's trajectory
15.08.2024

JUICE space probe to fly by the Moon and Earth

With the close flybys the space probe's trajectory will be changed, setting it on the ideal course to Venus:

The highly anticipated space manoeuvre has been named LEGA, for 'Lunar-Earth Gravity Assist' – which roughly means Moon-Earth gravity deflection. For the first time, the orbit of a space probe will be altered by the…

Laser clock. Credit: DLR (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
31.07.2024

DLR laser clock achieves world-class accuracy

Laser clocks are set to improve satellite navigation and deliver a precise global time signal:

A new laser clock from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has achieved a record level of accuracy for optical clocks with gas cells: in 30 million years, it would be off by…

The Flensburg meteorite. Credit: Carsten Jonas CC BY-SA 4.0
15.07.2024

How Earth got its water

Distant asteroids thought to have brought large amounts of water to Earth:

Although water is essential for the existence of life on Earth, its presence on our planet was by no means a foregone conclusion. Millions of asteroid fragments from regions of the Solar System far from the Sun are…

H₂ELECTRA: a regional aircraft © DLR
01.07.2024

Good clean fun times two

DLR is working at two new institutes in Cottbus to help make industry and flying more sustainable :

Lowering CO₂ emissions is a pressing problem of our time. In Cottbus, people are working on solutions for it. Supported by funding for structural economic change, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) founded two…

Visualization of the scattering of two black holes including a wave profile © M. Driesse, J. Kleinmond, J. Plefka (HU)
24.06.2024

Breakthrough in Gravitational Wave Physics

Black Hole Scattering at Unprecedented Precision:

In a groundbreaking achievement, an international team led by IRIS Adlershof member Jan Plefka has computed the dynamics of two black holes scattering off each other at the highest level of precision ever attained.…

The Swiss Rescue team during night-time search and rescue operations © I.S.A.R. Germany
13.06.2024

Real-time situation maps for disaster management

DLR creates live situation maps for international exercise for the first time and analyses data with open source AI:

From 21 to 25 May 2024, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) took part in the international disaster relief exercise ACHILLES 2024 in Switzerland. For the first time, a team…

Asteroid Dinkinesh with satellite, which is a double body, a so-called contact binary asteroid. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab
03.06.2024

“Lucy” discovers a double moon around asteroid Dinkinesh

DLR scientists made a surprising observation when analysing the image data from the NASA space probe:

First a small surprise and then a big one: when NASA's Lucy space probe transmitted the first images to Earth after its flyby of the small asteroid Dinkinesh on 1 November 2023, it revealed a moon behind the 720-metre…

DLR researcher Jörn Helbert © WISTA Management GmbH
14.05.2024

A stroke of luck – The meteorite from the Havelland

Planetary researcher Jörn Helbert examined the very rare object in the DLR laboratory:

Sunday, 21 January 2024. It’s about half past two. The night over Brandenburg is clear when, suddenly, a fiery streak illuminates the sky. A chunk of a rock from space, half a metre long and weighing about 140 kilos,…

Depiction of Earth and Venus, with the EnVision orbiter in the foreground © NASA/JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/VR2planets/Damia Bouic
01.02.2024

ESA approves Venus EnVision mission

DLR is contributing a multispectral camera to map the mineralogy and perform measurements in the venusian atmosphere:

Venus, Earth's inner neighbouring planet, is a mysterious celestial body. Almost the same size as Earth, with only a slightly smaller mass and largely made up of the same materials as Earth, Venus has developed in a…

Noctis Labyrinthus – tectonically shaped 'high mountains' © ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)
31.01.2024

DLR’s Mars camera – 20 years of operations

The first image was transmitted to Earth on 10 January 2004:

An extraordinary success story, and a long-lasting one at that. For 20 years now, DLR's High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express orbiter has been providing the science…

DLR project ComInA: tracking system for emergency responders © DLR
08.12.2023

Better coordination of emergency services in buildings

DLR tracking system makes people and surrounding structures visible:

Emergency responders operating in buildings or industrial plants should not only know their exact location. In order for a mission to be coordinated, it is also important that the location of each individual team…

Michael Ullrich, CEO at MO-SPACE © WISTA Management GmbH
06.11.2023

MO-SPACE: communicating securely with quanta

With his start-up, aerospace engineer Michael Ullrich wants to provide the highest standard for secure communication:

Not everything that rushes through the airwaves is intended for other people’s eyes and ears. Administration, businesses, and the military have always relied on information being confidential. Because of this,…

Katharina Marienhagen © WISTA Management GmbH
01.11.2023

The traffic manager

Katharina Marienhagen and her team look after more than 2,100 traffic lights in Berlin:

Two hours of Berlin traffic, day after day. From the far northwest to the far southeast in the morning, and back again in the evening. Once Katharina Marienhagen has reached her desk in Adlershof via Falkensee, the…

In the photo, the signatories (in the image description) of the agreement are standing in front of a screen on which the IDEFIX logo can be seen. © DLR
20.06.2023

DLR, JAXA and CNES signed a trilateral agreement on cooperation for the MMX mission

As part of the MMX mission, the German-French rover IDEFIX will land on the Martian moon Phobos:

The origin of the martian moons Phobos and Deimos is still an unsolved mystery in planetary research. Both moons will be the targets of the Japanese Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission. A German-French rover will…

12.05.2023

IQ spacecom technology equips Israel's Beresheet2 mission to the moon

Berlin-based IQ Technologies for Earth and Space GmbH announces the involvement of its IQ spacecom technology in the Beresheet2 mission of the Israeli non-profit organization SpaceIL :

SpaceIL is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting science and science education.  In April 2019, SpaceIL became the first private organization in history to reach the moon, securing Israel's position as the…

DHL electric fleet © Deutsche Post Group DHL (DPDHL)
10.03.2023

Flexible charging strategy in electrified logistics fleets can relieve pressure on power grids

Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), IAV and E.DIS Netz GmbH presented the results of the research project Netz_eLOG on the intelligent grid integration of e-mobility:

Electric fleets in the logistics industry offer secured flexibility for the power grid. Together with grid-serving charging strategies, they can help to avoid bottlenecks or overloads in distribution grids and make…

Jupiter spacecraft © ESA/ATG medialab (spacecraft); NASA/JPL/DLR (Jupiter, moons)
26.01.2023

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft with DLR instruments on its way to Europe’s spaceport in Kourou

ESA mission spacecraft launches to Jupiter in April to study the planet and its icy moons, especially Ganymede:

"Trois, deux, un – et décollage!" This is how the last three seconds will be counted down in the control centre in Kourou, French Guiana, this April before one of the last Ariane 5 launch vehicles lifts off from…

P. Hennicke, K. Goldammer © RLI
30.11.2022

Kathrin Goldammer becomes member of German-Japanese Energy Transition Council

The council aims to promote scientific exchange on energy transition issues between the two countries:

The German Japanese Energy Transition Council (GJETC) has appointed RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer as a member. At the council’s recent meeting in Berlin on November 28-29, she will attend the meeting for the…

Planetary researcher Stefano Mottola © WISTA Management GmbH
11.11.2022

Blacker than coal and bound to Jupiter

Stefano Mottola investigates far-away celestial bodies. A recent mission focused on so-called trojans:

When Stefano Mottola talks about his research objects, it is enormously challenging to one’s imagination. Between a few dozen and up to 100 kilometres in size and blacker than black paper or coal, asteroids circle the…

Per­se­ver­ance and In­ge­nu­ity Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltec
04.04.2022

The sound of Mars

NASA's Per­se­ver­ance rover lis­tens in the thin Mar­tian at­mo­sphere:

Mars has a very thin atmosphere, which at the surface has a density approximately one percent that of Earth's. Until recently, it was unclear whether there is anything to hear in the barren landscape there and if it…