20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
...The heat probe developed and built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and deployed on Mars by NASA... benefit future missions to Mars and elsewhere, and we thank our German partners from DLR for providing this instrument and for their collaboration.” ...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
...US Government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) getting involved in such work. ESA and the German Aerospace Center were considering funding a 350-kilogram refuelling spacecraft that could refuel up to three satellites. More recently...
October 2020
Connecting the global space community
...to create greater visibility and access for women, especially in the aerospace sector. The IAF is fostering the principles of “3-G” Diversity ...Chair of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) between 2015-2020. The asteroid ‘9826 Ehrenfreund ...
09 October 2020
BepiColombo could search for signs of life as it flybys Venus next week
... have to get very lucky. But it’s really at the limit of what we can do,” says Jörn Helbert from the German Aerospace Center, co-lead on the MERTIS instrument. The prospect of BepiColombo independently corroborating the detection made by Greaves and...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... ‘mothership’ will also carry the MASCOT-2 (Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout-2) micro lander, supplied by the German Aerospace Center DLR. It’s a direct descendant of the MASCOT-1 lander currently aboard JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission, embarked on a mission...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
... in Cologne and Bonn, writing her diploma thesis on landscape evaluation using satellite remote sensing data at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). From 2004, she worked at ESA/ESTEC as Head of the EGAS Audit Section, with the task...
