DLR Portal - Oberpfaffenhofen

Reducing turbulence near airports - DLR tests new procedures to mitigate wake vortices

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:50:00 +0200

Currently, safety considerations related to wake vortices force pilots of small and medium-sized aircraft to maintain a separation of about 10 kilometres from heavier planes flying ahead of them.

D2 mission 20 years ago – clawed frogs and crystals in microgravity

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:00:52 +0200

"Go for Spacelab activities," confirmed NASA Mission Control Center on 26 April 1993 at 18:51 CET. German astronauts Hans Schlegel and Ulrich Walter and their United States colleagues had to wait almost two months until, with this command, the D2 mission could finally begin.

Astronaut and guinea pig – all in one

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:59:14 +0200

In 1993, during the second German D2 Spacelab Mission, astronaut Hans Schlegel orbited Earth 160 times and conducting numerous international experiments as payload specialist. This was Schlegel's first flight into space.

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

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:10:00 +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'.

TEXUS 50 – Anniversary for Germany's sounding rocket programme

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:20:00 +0200

It is the world's longest running rocket programme for conducting research in microgravity, and today it is celebrating an anniversary. Around 35 years after the launch of the first TEXUS mission in December 1977, the 50th TEXUS rocket was successfully launched into space from the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna in northern Sweden on 12 April 2013 at 06:25 CEST.

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

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:06:29 +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.

DLR Special Prize: "Robust GNSS – Safety for Success"

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:59:51 +0100

It’s that time again: the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is continuing its tradition of sponsoring a special prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition in the ESNC’s 2013 edition. Under the theme "Robust GNSS – Safety for Success", DLR is focusing on safety-critical applications and advanced techniques in connection with Galileo research and time signals. Anyone interested can submit and fine-tune their proposals from 1 April to 30 June 2013. The competition is designed to attract the participation of companies, research institutes, and other organisations, as well as private individuals.

DLR Oberpfaffenhofen

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:50:00 +0100

Together with the site at Koeln, the DLR site at Oberpfaffenhofen is one of Germany's largest research centres. Located near the A96 motorway between Munich and Lindau, the site is home to eight scientific institues and currently employs approximately 1500 people. The research centre's main fields of activity include paricipating in space missions, climate research, research and development in the field of Earth observation, developing navigation systems and advanced robotics development.