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23.06.20 - Home office at the German Space Operations Center: New plasma crystal experiments on the ISS (GERMAN) Normally, the scientists would now be in Toulouse, as only from there can they control their plasma crystal laboratory PK-4, which has been on board the International Space Station ISS since 2015. However, the corona pandemic made the journey from Oberpfaffenhofen to the CADMOS control centre in France impossible. The experiments in weightlessness, which had been prepared for months, threatened to fail. But the scientists of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) received "obvious" support: the colleagues from the German Space Operations Center made their resources available and set up a special kind of "home office". Read more

22.06.20 - DLR seeks new space experiments from students (GERMAN) The German-Swedisch REXUS/BEXUS-Program (Rocket and Balloon Experiments for University Students) starts its next round: From now, students of German universities can apply for scientific investigations on sounding rockets and balloons with their own experiments. Read more

10.02.20 - BAYERN-CHEMIE und DLR schließen Vertrag zur Entwicklung und Herstellung von Feststoffraketenmotoren Nach ausführlichen Verhandlungen haben die Firma BAYERN-CHEMIE und die Abteilung Mobile Raketenbasis (MORABA) der Einrichtung Raumflugbetrieb und Astronautentraining des Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) einen Vertrag zur Entwicklung und Herstellung von Feststoffraketenmotoren unterzeichnet. Read more