DLR facts

Personnel

7959

employees at DLR in 2016
Supporting young researchers

960

doctoral students were supervised by DLR in 2016
Promoting education

39,503

school children visited DLR_School_Labs in 2016
Infrastructure

40

institutes, testing and operational facilities exist within DLR
Sites

20

sites are maintained by DLR throughout Germany
Budget

925

million euro was DLR’s research and operations budget in the financial year 2016
Aerospace budget

1463

million euro were managed within the DLR aerospace budget in the financial year 2016
Project Management Agency

1105

million euro was the amount of funds provided by DLR in the financial year 2016
Technology Marketing

145

technology transfer projects were supported by DLR between 2006 and 2016

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Shaping future mobility through European research

11 June 2018

Networked autonomous driving and flying will radically change transport as we know it today. Such technology has the potential to fundamentally improve our energy and emissions footprint, as well as to make transport safer and more efficient.

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Solar receiver CentRec passes test at over 900 degrees Celsius

14 June 2018

Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have taken a major step forward in the development of receiver technology for solar tower power plants. The innovative radiation receiver CentRec in the solar tower at the DLR facility in Jülich passed its first test at extremely high temperatures in May 2018. During the test, the researchers heated ceramic particles in the receiver to over 965 degrees Celsius, and in doing so demonstrated that concentrated solar radiation can be used to generate and store energy at very high temperatures.

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ONERA and DLR perform Beluga XL ground vibration testing

7 June 2018

A joint team from the French aerospace research centre ONERA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) performed the ground vibration testing (GVT) of the new Airbus Beluga XL large transport aircraft.

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Heike Rauer appointed Head of the DLR Institute of Planetary Research

1 November 2017

Heike Rauer will be Head of the Institute of Planetary Research of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) from 1 November 2017. She follows in the footsteps of Tilman Spohn, who had held the position since 2004.

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DLR and Lufthansa Technik investigate biofuels in new study

7 June 2017

Biofuels have the potential to make air transport more climate-friendly and reduce dependency on fossil raw materials, since they are produced using renewable raw materials, such as oil plants, grain, algae and wood.

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