In the early morning hours of 12 November 2025, the MAPHEUS-16 sounding rocket successfully lifted off from the Esrange launch site, carrying 21 experiments into microgravity for just over six minutes ...

Space Tech Expo Europe is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Bremen, Germany, from 18 to 20 November. DLR will once again be participating with one of the largest exhibition booths in Hall 5, Stand ...

On 9 July 2024, Ariane 6 launched into space for the first time from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. With this new development, the Ariane launch system has been technically advanced to ...

APPARILLIO captures and processes images of objects in low Earth orbit. It can be used for space surveillance or locating space debris.

DLR's HRSC stereo camera on Mars Express captures the Martian surface from different angles. Using this data, the DLR Institute of Space Research and the Planetology Department of the Free University ...

In the LUNA facility, a network of cables were laid across the surface and underground. Tiny deformations in the network can be used to detect subsurface structures. Researchers tested instruments and ...

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The sounding rocket with its payload of 21 scientific experiments up top, is ready for launch.

Spectators take their seats on motion seats, put on VR glasses and experience an unforgettable virtual space flight into space.

Ultra-lightweight and compact carbon fibre films allow large structures like these solar cells to be rolled up for space-saving transport to Earth orbit.

The landscapes of Coloe Fossae lie along Mars' dichotomy boundary – the transition from the Martian highlands of Terra Sabaea to the northern lowlands of Utopia Planitia, approximately 55 degrees east ...

At the tip of DLR's sounding rocket, 21 experiments were accommodated which experienced more than six minutes of weightlessness.