DLRmagazine 146/147 – Summit flight in the Midnight Sun

In the latest edition of the DLRmagazine 146/147, you can read two fascinating live reports illustrated by impressive images and encounters with interesting people. The cover story, ‘Summit flight in the Midnight Sun’ tells the tale of a flight campaign conducted by DLR’s Falcon research aircraft across Iceland and Greenland, where a new laser instrument, a wind lidar, was tested. Wind data collected from high atmospheric layers will make weather forecasts more accurate in the future. Our second live report features MAPHEUS-5, a sounding rocket with materials physics experiments on board - investigations were conducted during six minutes of microgravity. And there is more!

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