In the early morning hours of 12 November 2025, the MAPHEUS-16 sounding rocket successfully lifted off from the Esrange launch site, carrying 21 experiments into microgravity for just over six minutes ...

Ernst Messerschmid conducted numerous experiments during the mission. The orbiter encircled Earth 112 times. After seven days in space, the astronauts flew back to Earth on 11 November 1985.

Mighty table mountains over 2000 metres high mark the transition from the southern highlands to the northern lowlands in the Coloe Fossae region. Traces of landslides along the steep slopes indicate ...

DLR researchers have developed a fuel cell-powered electric nose wheel that will allow aircraft to save fuel while significantly reducing airport noise. The nose wheel drive system has already ...

Emission-free airports – DLR develops a fuel cell-powered electric nose wheel for commercial aircraft ...

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Arabidopsis seedlings in BIOLAB containers; wild-type left, right, mutant ...

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The effects of the tsunami are shown in a before and after comparison of the Japanese coast between 5 September 2010 (left) and the 12 March 2011 (right). Data: Rapid Eye.

Sea ice off the coast of Greenland. The data acquisition for this image was performed by TanDEM-X on 2 August 2010, using ScanSAR mode with a swath width of 100 kilometres.

The MAPHEUS-16 flight was the first to be powered by two Red Kite rocket engines. Developed and manufactured by DLR in collaboration with Bayern-Chemie, these engines are highly powerful and enable ...