The Institute of Flight Systems focuses its research on investigating the flight mechanics of different aircraft. Even though fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft are fundamentally different, they rely ...

The JANUS camera system is the 'eye' of the JUICE mission. It will primarily provide high-resolution multispectral images of Jupiter's large moons. The camera was selected by ESA in February 2013 as ...

Research agreement between DLR and the University of Tokyo Focus on green fuels from atmospheric CO 2 Official signing in Cologne The DLR Institute of Future Fuels and the Research Center for Advanced ...

The Mars Express mission, Europe's first interplanetary mission, and all of its experiments continue to function almost perfectly after 20 years of scientific operations. The High Resolution Stereo ...

The world's first in-flight measurements of contrails from a hydrogen-powered turbojet engine have been conducted. The measurements provide new insights into the climate impact of contrails produced ...

OSIRIS4CubeSat, the world's smallest commercially available laser communications terminal, was developed specifically for use on small and microsatellites. During the PIXL-1 mission, DLR was able to ...

A long-standing cooperation between DLR and Rolls-Royce has reduced pollutant emissions. Modern measurement technology facilitates this engine optimisation. Focus: Aviation, sustainable emissions ...

DLR and ESA have joined forces with Google to create a dataset on settlements that covers the entire world. These findings will contribute towards a better understanding of urbanisation and support ...

'Harmony' is intended to answer important scientific questions about changes to oceans, ice and land. ESA has selected 'Harmony' as a future mission in the field of Earth observation. Focus: Earth ...

Space radiation poses a significant health risk during long-duration astronaut missions. To develop protective solutions, comprehensive and consistent radiation data is required from beyond low-Earth ...

With the BALIS test infrastructure, DLR is developing and testing fuel cell electric propulsion systems with output in the megawatt range. The DLR team has reached a first milestone; operating two ...

The aim is to significantly improve the accuracy and speed of predictions using machine learning methods. The new approach of the researchers combines models across different scales and varying ...