October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
...acute effects of radiation exposure The German Aerospace Center (DLR) led the Matroshka project on the Space Station beginning...results from Matroshka study on ISS. International collaboration The DLR research team is drawing on its experience from the...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
...communication problems or operator misperception could result in collision, must be automated. ROKVISS tests at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Extending life It is not feasible simply to take some of the robots that are being used in industry and...
June 2015
The day Philae landed: how a rough touchdown still made history at the Rosetta Mission
...down again. There is nothing we can do. The DLR LCC Operations Team analysing and discussing the available data during...predefined science timeline. Fortunately all teams were located at DLR in Cologne, thus communication loops were short and efficient...
March 2016
Captivating hearts and minds
... Twitter accounts @ESA_Rosetta (managed by ESA’s science communications team) and @Philae2014 (managed by the German Aerospace Centre, DLR), which were run in first person, letting the public engage with the characters of Rosetta and Philae...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... (EnEx), funded by the German Space Administration (DLR). Our institute was responsible for the overall mission ... habitat. Some of these challenges are being addressed with several DLR-funded follow-on projects to the original EnEx to improve these ...
20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
...remain incompatible,” said HP3’s principal investigator, Tilman Spohn of (DLR). “Fortunately, we’ve learned a lot that will benefit future...elsewhere, and we thank our German partners from DLR for providing this instrument and for their collaboration.”...
