In the early morning hours of 12 November 2025, the MAPHEUS-16 sounding rocket successfully lifted off from the Esrange launch site, carrying 21 experiments into microgravity for just over six minutes ...

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.

DLR researchers have developed a fuel cell-powered electric nose wheel that will allow aircraft to save fuel while significantly reducing airport noise. The nose wheel drive system has already ...

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Arabidopsis seedlings in BIOLAB containers; wild-type left, right, mutant ...

The effects of the tsunami are shown in a before and after comparison of the Japanese coast between 5 September 2010 (left) and the 12 March 2011 (right). Data: Rapid Eye.

Emission-free airports – DLR develops a fuel cell-powered electric nose wheel for commercial aircraft ...

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The Coflame burner enables systematic investigations for clean combustion.

ETCA Campus director Sarah Street with Mathias Sperl from the Institute for Frontier Materials on Earth and in Space and Martin Roeb from the Institute of Future Fuels.

DLR's HRSC stereo camera on Mars Express captures the Martian surface from different angles. Using this data, the DLR Institute of Space Research and the Planetology Department of the Free University ...