Tag: DLR
The moment finally arrives: over 100 pupils are connected with the ISS live via video conference. Up in space, German ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer unrolls a 10-metre-long strip of pictures, featuring self-portraits from a number of pupils. These hand-drawn...
The ROboMObil (ROMO) has been transferring space research to the road since 2011. The project began a few years earlier at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) when researchers at the Robotics and Mechatronics...
At 09:20 local time (13:20 CET) on 25 December 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on its journey to the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system (L2), 1.5...
In addition to its enormous volcanoes, huge rift valley systems, and dried-up crater lakes and river valleys, the ice caps at the north and south poles of Mars have been the subject of intensive scientific investigations. These ice caps,...
The journey has begun. The environmental satellite EnMAP, which has been developed and built in Germany on behalf of the German Space Agency at DLR with funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWi) and...
new concepts for future rail transport In the Next Generation Train project, DLR scientists are developing new concepts for future rail transport. Here, the complete train family is united: consisting of the NGT Link feeder, the NGT high-speed train...
The satellite market is thriving and satellites themselves are becoming ever smaller and lighter. Around 90 percent of the satellites that will be launched into space over the next decade weigh less than 500 kilograms, which puts them in...
It was a great pleasure for our SpaceQuip Journal team to take part to the virtual press conference organized by NASA and DLR on Antarctica Plant Research: NASA guest scientist Jess Bunchek, introduced us to this successful test run...
Jess Bunchek, the NASA guest scientist at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) EDEN ISS greenhouse, is nearing the end of her mission in Antarctica. Bunchek has been living and working as a member...
Cosmic Kiss – on schedule so far
German ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer and his NASA colleagues Kayla Barron, Raja Chari and Thomas Marshburn have been living and working on the International Space Station ISS since 12 November 2021. During his...
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