Am 14. August 2025 waren Franziska Hoppermann MdB und Prof. Dr. Kristina Sinemus, Hessische Ministerin für Digitalisierung und Innovation, zu Besuch beim Innovationszentrum des DLR in Hamburg. Im ...

In dieser Blogserie zur zweiten Kampagne der DLR-NASA-Bettruhestudie „Sensorimotor Countermeasures Study (SMC)” stellen die ...

Four robots and a live link to the International Space Station ISS made for an unusual scene at the DLR 'Earthly Mars' site in Oberpfaffenhofen. On 24 July 2025, the Surface Avatar team carried out ...

ESA's PLATO space telescope is scheduled to launch at the end of 2026 and begin its search for Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars in 2027. The telescope's optical bench, with its 26 cameras, ...

On 16 June 2025, at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, DLR and NASA signed an agreement to continue their long-standing and successful cooperation in space medicine research.

The DLR Institute of Future Fuels and the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) at the University of Tokyo have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Cologne to formalise ...

The European aviation sector is a major economic force, providing 15 million jobs and contributing 1.1 trillion euros to Europe's collective gross domestic product. Europe accounts for 58 percent of ...

One of the very first commands I sent to the ISS as a flight controller, many years ago, was to one of our external experiment platforms on Europe's Columbus research module.

The DLR-Institute of Space Research is a world-leading competence center for optical sensor systems and their application in planetary research, Earth observation and security.

Forests cover 40.6 million square kilometres of our planet – almost a third of Earth' s ice-free land area. Often called the 'green lungs' of our planet, they supply our atmosphere with fresh oxygen.

The Digital Hangar is an online resource for viewing and exploring aircraft concepts and even downloading data. Through the platform, available at digital-hangar.de, DLR provides insights into the ...

I'm standing on the Moon, and something reminds me of home. Although I'm surrounded by darkness, grey dreariness and lots of dust and stones, something keeps bringing my thoughts back to our house in ...