August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... developed by DLR. In addition to the already flown or still operational missions, various projects are currently underway. The InSight mission is being prepared with NASA, and DLR is contributing the HP3 (Heat Flow and Physical Properties...
October 2016
Project MOONWALK
he scientific focus of MOONWALK was to evaluate new technologies for the interaction of astronauts with helper robots on planetary surfaces. Between 2013 and 2016, a number of technologies and technical systems were demonstrated and tested in two ...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
While security issues in outer space were mostly handled at a bilateral level between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War, most actors in outer space, space agencies and commercial satellite operators, realise today that our ...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... Telescope (VLT) and, as larger facilities come online over the next decade, direct imaging is expected to provide insights about hot, young planets in the outer regions of their solar systems. For the transit method, spectroscopic...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... Space Operations Centre, Issue 13 (February 2011). 6 See Taylor, supra note [4]. 7 D McKnight & F Di Pentino, “New Insights on the Orbital Debris Collision Hazard at GEO,” (Address to the IAC-11-A6.2.6, 62nd International Astronautical Congress...
May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
... than ideal from a crew perspective. We were three of the six members of HI-SEAS Mission III, which gave us an insight into some of the issues that will be faced by future crews journeying to Mars. HI-SEAS (Hawai’i Space Exploration...
