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DLR’s Bremen Site
The Bremen site of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has been the home of the Institute of Space Systems since 2007. The institute’s work includes analysing and evaluating complex spaceflight systems for their technological, economical and socio-political viability. It develops concepts for innovative space missions with high visibility at national and international level. Scientific, commercial and safety-related applications supported by spaceflight are developed and converted into collaborative projects with research and industry. |
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Site Bremen  German Aerospace Center
Robert Hooke-Str. 7
28359 Bremen
Phone: +49 421 24420-101
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Bremen - News
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Further development of ATV technology - contract on study signed
7 July 2009
In Bremen on Tuesday 7 July 2009, the second European space transporter, ATV-2 - developed in association with, and with the support of, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) – was presented to the public. It was officially given the name of the German astronomer and scholar Johannes Kepler. |
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Successful first flight of the DLR Mapheus research rocket
22 May 2009
On Friday 22 May 2009 at 12:32, the Mapheus research rocket of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) lifted off from the Esrange launch facility near Kiruna in northern Sweden. Mapheus is an acronym for Materialphysikalische Experimente unter Schwerelosigkeit – Materials Physics Experiments under Weightlessness. Scientists from the DLR Institute of Materials Physics in Space, located in Cologne, used this flight to investigate how liquids behave in conditions of weightlessness. |
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Mars researchers battling to save NASA's rover Spirit
18 May 2009
NASA's rover Spirit, which has been travelling across Mars for more than five years, has become stuck in soft soil. Mars researchers and the team operating Spirit are now searching for ways to get the rover, about the size of a camping table, moving again. Lutz Richter from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Institute of Aerospace Systems in Bremen is testing the behaviour of the rover's wheels in a sand mixture that has been specially prepared to simulate conditions on Mars. |
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