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At DLR engines are investigated in various ways
The engine is the heart of the aircraft's propulsion system. At DLR, it is put through its paces: digitally on the computer and in real life on test benches such as the M2VP (multistage twin-shaft axial compressor test bench) at the Institute of Propulsion Technology in Cologne. -
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Infographic about the MARE experiment
For the MARE experiment, the radiation measuring mannequin Helga will fly with her 'twin sister' Zohar to the Moon and back in the Orion spacecraft to measure radiation and evaluate the AstroRad radiation protection vest as part of NASA's Artemis I mission. -
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Arrival of ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer at Cologne/Bonn Airport
At 00:40, a German armed forces aircraft with Matthias Maurer on board arrived in the military section of Cologne/Bonn Airport. -
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Exiting the Crew Dragon capsule
On 6 May 2022 at 06:43 CEST, ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer and his NASA Crew 3 colleagues Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari and Kayla Barron splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida on board the Dragon capsule 'Endurance'. After being recovered by the SpaceX vessel Shannon, the crew is helped out of the capsule. -
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Happy homecoming
Thumbs up! - ESA astronaut Matthais Maurer after exiting the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endurance on board the SpaceX recovery ship. Maurer and his NASA crewmates Raja Chari, Kayla Barron and Tom Marshburn landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, on 6 May 2022.
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Video: Évora Molten Salt Platform (EMSP) – The next generation of solar thermal parabolic trough power plants
Parabolic trough power plants convert solar energy into heat and then into electricity. To do this, they concentrate sunlight with long mirror troughs arranged in rows. Using solar power they heat a thermal transfer medium, which can then be used immediately or stored for later.
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Video: Intelligent charging management
The more vehicles that are electrically powered, the more important intelligent charging management and the efficient connection of the energy and transport sectors become. -
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Video: SpaceX – Crew-3 Mission | Return
On 5 May at 07:20 CEST, Dragon and the Crew-3 astronauts autonomously undocked from the International Space Station ISS to return to Earth. After performing a series of departure burns to move away from the space station, Dragon conducted multiple orbit-lowering maneuvers, jettison its trunk, and re-entered Earth's atmosphere for splashdown off the coast of Florida approximately 23.5 hours later on 6 May at 00:43 local time (06:43 CEST). Aboard the spacecraft Crew-3 astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and Matthias Maurer, who flew to the space station on Dragon when Falcon 9 launched the spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 03:03 CET on 11 November 2021. -
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The first images from the EnMAP environmental satellite
The hyperspectral satellite EnMAP has delivered its first Earth observation images. Project Manager Sebastian Fischer explains the images and the conclusions that can already be drawn from them. -
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Successful ‘Moon landing’ using the DLR robotic motion simulator
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Roberto Vittori has tested various lunar landing manoeuvres for the first time in the flight deck of the ‘DLR Robotic Motion Simulator’. The motion simulator was developed at the DLR Institute of System Dynamics and Control and allows for extreme tilt angles and manoeuvres. The experiment is part of the ESA project ‘Human-in-the-Loop Flight Vehicle Engineering for Exploration Missions’. Within this project, technology studies are being carried out for crewed landings at the Moon’s South Pole.The main goals are to evaluate human-machine interfaces and assistance functions for spacecraft. DLR researchers are also studying how the conditions and effects of motion that occur in lower gravity can best be simulated on Earth.
