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 ...

On 1 November 2025, Tina Comes assumed the scientific co-leadership of the Institute for the Protection of Terrestrial Infrastructures at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

The EU Commission is expected to publish its new calls for proposals for the five European missions on climate adaptation, cancer, water, cities and soil in December 2025. In several thematic online ...

In the LUNA facility, a network of cables were laid across the surface and underground. Tiny deformations in the network can be used to detect subsurface structures. Researchers tested instruments and ...

The two rovers LRU2 (left) and LRU1 working in the LUNA facility. LRU2 uses its robotic arm to position the LIBS (Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy) device housed in the gold-coloured box. LIBS ...

LRU1 maps the surface visually and in 3D. To do this, it records the surface with a multispectral stereo panoramic camera, easily recognisable on the rover's wide head. Such cameras see much more than ...

APPARILLO captures and processes images of objects in low Earth orbit. It can be used for space surveillance or locating space debris.

Spectators take their seats on motion seats, put on VR glasses and experience an unforgettable virtual space flight into space.

Ultra-lightweight and compact carbon fibre films allow large structures like these solar cells to be rolled up for space-saving transport to Earth orbit.

DLR’s HRSC stereo camera on board Mars Express captures the Martian surface from multiple viewing angles using its nine sensors. From this data, the DLR Institute of Space Research and Freie ...

ETCA Campus director Sarah Street with Mathias Sperl from the Institute for Frontier Materials on Earth and in Space and Martin Roeb from the Institute of Future Fuels.

The Red Kite rocket motor was rolled to the launch pad on a special trolley, raised into a vertical position and then installed.