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DLR robotic vehicles will support deliveries in difficult areas for the World Food Programme

October 21, 2020
As part of a new collaborative project, researchers from DLR's Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics and a consortium of additional DLR institutes and technology partners are investigating how aid supplies can be safely brought to their destinations using remote-controlled trucks.
The German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) marks its 40th anniversary

October 19, 2020
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Remote Sensing Data Center (Deutsche Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum; DFD) is now 40 years old.
Germany on course for climate-neutral flying

October 14, 2020
The energy transition in air transport, with the goal of zero emissions, is possible by mid-century but requires a considerable increase in innovation. This is being emphasised by DLR and the German Aerospace Industries Association at today's joint presentation of the white paper ‘Zero Emission Aviation – Emissionsfreies Fliegen' to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
BepiColombo spacecraft continues to 'fall' on its trajectory towards Mercury

October 14, 2020
Approaching Venus from its day side, passing the planet, using its gravitational pull to slow down and continuing on its night side on course for Mercury: on Thursday 15 October 2020, at 05:58 CEST, ESA’s BepiColombo spacecraft will fly past Venus at a distance of approximately 10,720 kilometres and transfer some of its kinetic energy to our neighbouring planet in order to reduce its own speed.
Improved safety in Space – GESTRA space radar ready to begin operations

October 13, 2020
Activity in space continues to increase. Several thousand satellites, spacecraft and other objects orbit Earth at altitudes of between 300 and 3000 kilometres. In addition to the inactive satellites and upper stages of rockets that are left behind here after missions, there are hundreds of thousands of smaller pieces of debris.
Solar power for sustainable pasta

October 9, 2020
The production of delicious Italian pasta requires wheat, water and energy. Researchers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are now working on methods to power the production and drying processes as sustainably as possible.
International space community meets virtually for the first time at IAC 2020

October 2, 2020
Due to this year's unusual circumstances, the international space community will meet in a purely virtual setting for the first time at the 71st International Astronautical Congress (IAC) from 12 to 14 October 2020.
The Safe Light Regional Vehicle makes its debut

October 1, 2020
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has developed a new, innovative small vehicle. The Safe Light Regional Vehicle (SLRV) is extremely light yet very safe.
'Pit stop' for SOFIA – airborne observatory returns to Hamburg

October 1, 2020
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is making another 'pit stop'. At 19:17 on 30 September 2020, the airborne observatory, which is operated by the US space agency NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), landed at Hamburg Airport.
Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla appointed as new Chair of the DLR Executive Board

October 1, 2020
Materials scientist and engineer Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla took up her new position as Chair of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on 1 October 2020.
The green hydrogen economy – sector coupling and international cooperation as factors for success

September 30, 2020
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is examining the potential of green hydrogen as a source of energy for a climate-neutral energy system in a two-part study.
First tests for landing the Martian Moons eXploration Rover

September 30, 2020
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will have a German-French rover on board when it is launched in 2024. The rover will land on the Martian moon Phobos and explore its surface for approximately three months.
The topography of Jezero crater – landing site of NASA's Mars 2020 mission

September 29, 2020
NASA's 2020 Mars mission has been en route to the Red Planet for two months now. The Perseverance rover on board the spacecraft is set to land in Jezero crater on 18 February 2021.
A second DLR study on COVID-19 and mobility – public transport wanes in popularity, private transport gains in importance

September 28, 2020
Public transport is losing ground in Germany, while the importance of individual means of transport, especially private cars, is increasing.
CHEOPS space telescope makes ultra-precise temperature and size measurements of an unusual giant planet

September 28, 2020
Initial measurements made by the European CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) space telescope indicate that the giant planet, WASP-189b, located 326 light years from Earth, glows as hot as a small star as it orbits its central star at high speed on an unusual orbit that takes it close to the star's poles.
How intense and dangerous is cosmic radiation on the Moon?

September 25, 2020
The Chang'e-4 lunar lander touched down on the far side of the Moon on 3 January 2019, with a German instrument for measuring space radiation on board. Since then, the Lunar Lander Neutron and Dosimetry (LND) instrument has been measuring temporally resolved cosmic radiation for the first time.
The first prototype of the futuristic U-Shift vehicle concept makes its debut

September 17, 2020
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is breathing new life into future urban mobility and logistics with its futuristic U-shift vehicle concept.
Into microgravity with face masks

September 17, 2020
It is the 35th parabolic flight campaign of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), but nothing is routine on these flights under microgravity conditions. For the first time, scientists, engineers, and flight crew must master the challenges of their experimental research during the Coronavirus pandemic.
DLR camera examines Arctic sea ice from the air as part of the MOSAiC expedition

September 15, 2020
For the first time since the restrictions imposed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, flights of the Polar 5 and Polar 6 research aircraft are currently taking place from Longyearbyen airport on the island of Spitsbergen to the central Arctic.
NASA and DLR study the transformation of the air transport system

September 9, 2020
The integration of new types of aircraft into the air transport system requires it to change. Over the coming years, NASA and DLR will be working together on research into how the air transport system can be transformed to meet these new challenges.
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21

Institute of Test and Simulation for Gas Turbines: number of employees (2019)
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8

Female
8,13

13

Male

Facts / Transport

19,42,17

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Transport – Revenues 2018 (Data in million euro)
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19

Transport systems – Revenues 2018 (Data in million euro)
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42

Rail transport – Revenues 2018 (Data in million euro)
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17

Road traffic – Revenues 2018 (Data in million euro)

Facts / Aeronautics

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Aeronautics – Revenues 2018 (Data in million euro)
162,47,48,20

162

Fixed-wing aircraft research – Revenues 2018 (Data in million euro)
162,47,48,20

47

Propulsion systems – Revenues 2018 (Data in million euro)
162,47,48,20

48

Air Traffic Management and Flight Experiments – Revenues 2018 (Data in million euro)
162,47,48,20

20

Rotary-wing aircraft research – Revenues 2018 (Data in million euro)

Facts / Space

106,100

206

Institute of Aerospace Medicine: number of employees (2019)
106,100

106

Female
106,100

100

Male

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