DLR Portal - News Archive

Tracking aircraft from space

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:00:00 +0200

On 4 May 2013 at 04:06 (CEST), when the European Proba-V satellite lifts off on a Vega launcher with the primary mission of observing vegetation from space, it will be carrying another instrument on board – one that will be keeping an 'eye' on aircraft.

Disaster relief – DLR to chair the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters'

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0200

Bureaucracy-free assistance in the event of an emergency – this is the aim of the 15 space agencies united within the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters'.

Cryptography of the future – DLR technology enables quantum key transmission from the air to the ground

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:00:00 +0200

A successful experiment by DLR in cooperation with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich has opened up new possibilities in cryptography. For the first time, researchers have managed to transmit a quantum key from a fast-moving object.

2013 – international collaborations and diverse research projects

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:00:00 +0100

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is using knowledge for tomorrow to shape the future of our society today. DLR is a world-renowned partner for research and will continue to develop its international network in 2013 by establishing new collaborations with research institutes and universities.

On call: Satellite Data for Emergency Response

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:00:00 +0100

From the research stage to full operation – The Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI) is now on call around the clock. This service facility established in 2004 provides up-to-the minute satellite-based maps for activities related to natural and environmental disasters, humanitarian aid, and civil security worldwide. On 22 January 2013 the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) officially launched regular ZKI operations.

DLR researches maritime flight missions using unmanned aircraft systems

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:00:00 +0100

Reliably monitoring extensive areas of the sea is a major challenge for the coastguard and emergency relief services. Unmanned aircraft are expected to make a critical contribution to this in the future.

European data centre for GMES Sentinel satellites at DLR

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:20:00 +0200

The ground segment for GMES is starting to take shape; the German Aerospace Center's Remote Sensing Data Center in Oberpfaffenhofen will be the European data centre for GMES satellites Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-3.

German TET-1 small satellite launched

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:10:00 +0200

On 22 July 2012 at 08:41:39 CEST, the first small German satellite in the ‘On-Orbit-Verification’ (OOV) programme was carried into orbit from the Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan by a Russian Soyuz launch vehicle. TET-1 is a technology testbed with 11 experiments on board that will be operated in space for a year.