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 ...

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In a zero-gravity environment, muscles and bones atrophy significantly, body fluids shift to the upper body, and there is less strain placed on the whole cardiovascular system, which then loses ...

To ensure the competitiveness of the European space industry, it is essential to reduce the costs of transporting payloads into space. A key factor in achieving this is the reusability of rocket ...

Jupiter has four large moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – with diameters of more than 3000 kilometres. However, we know it is also home to 111 additional small "satellites". Most of these ...

THALES AVS FRANCE SAS (THALES AVS) is one of the leading global suppliers of avionic solutions for the commercial and military aerospace markets. The company offers a wide range of functions and ...

PLATO's goal is to detect Earth-like planets in the Milky Way orbiting Sun-like stars – and even possessing conditions suitable for life. Instead of a single telescope with a large primary mirror and ...

Die Windkraft ist schon jetzt die zweitwichtigste Energiequelle in Deutschland. Sie leistet den größten Beitrag zur Stromerzeugung aus erneuerbaren Ressourcen. Bereits ein Viertel des Stroms stammte ...

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 exploration of the Martian system is entering a new phase. On 19 October 2026 at 21:41 CEST, the Japanese MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) spacecraft was successfully launched from the Tanegashima ...

Auf der internationalen Luft- und Raumfahrtmesse ILA Berlin haben das DLR und die Luftwaffe der Bundeswehr ihre Kooperation verlängert.

Prof. André D. Thess leitet seit dem 1. August 2026 das Institut für CO2-arme Industrieprozesse des DLR mit Standorten in Cottbus und Zittau. Zuvor war er zwölf Jahre der Direktor des DLR-Instituts ...