DLR Kommunikation und Presse - Press releases

Technologies for crisis management in the event of a disaster

Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:30:00 +0200

Earthquakes occur every day in Europe. In July 2019, no fewer than 27 earthquakes with a magnitude of between four and five on the Richter scale were detected, most of them in south-eastern Europe. The EU’s DRIVER+ project (Driving Innovation in Crisis Management for European Resilience) conducted a comprehensive disaster management exercise to address this. It was held from 12 to 14 September 2019 in the Eisenerz region of Austria, with a view to strengthening crisis management capabilities. The deployment of innovative developments and technologies was tested within the context of an earthquake scenario and evaluated by experts. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) generated real-time aerial images to provide essential support for position detection and rescue logistics.

SOFIA in Stuttgart – first scientific research flight over Europe

Sun, 15 Sep 2019 11:50:00 +0200

On 16 September 2019 at 04:14 CEST, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is expected to land at Stuttgart Airport. The airborne observatory is a joint project by the US space agency NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Investigating the ozone hole, Amazon fires and gravity waves with the German HALO research aircraft

Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:10:00 +0200

The German High Altitude and Long Range (HALO) research aircraft will be exploring the atmosphere in the southern hemisphere and its impact on climate change during September and November 2019 as part of the SOUTHTRAC (Transport and Composition of the Southern Hemisphere UTLS) mission. The main objective of the first phase of the campaign is to investigate gravity waves at the southern tip of South America and over Antarctica.

All-rounder in urban traffic – unveiling of the Urban Modular Vehicle (UMV)

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:20:00 +0200

From 10 to 15 September 2019 at the IAA New Mobility World in Frankfurt, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) will be exhibiting the prototype of its Urban Modular Vehicle (UMV) for the first time. This intelligent, modular electric city car brings together DLR research in the fields of automated and networked driving, propulsion technology, vehicle design and structure, energy management and chassis mechatronics. Further exhibits at the DLR stand (Hall 5, D04) will explain how automated driving can be tested using a high-tech test infrastructure and how mobility behaviour can be recorded quickly and efficiently using smartphones.

Optimisation of approach procedures to lessen noise and reduce fuel consumption at Zurich Airport

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:50:00 +0200

Approach and landing are among the most labour-intensive flight phases. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has developed the Low Noise Augmentation System (LNAS) in order to support pilots as they perform the complex procedures required for a low-noise approach.

DLR at IAA New Mobility World 2019

Thu, 29 Aug 2019 10:40:00 +0200

The prototype of an intelligent, modular electric urban car, infrastructure with high-tech sensors for testing automated and networked vehicles, and measuring mobility behaviour with smartphones – at IAA New Mobility World in Frankfurt, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) will be presenting forward-looking technologies and projects for tomorrow’s mobility.

CIMON back on Earth after 14 months on the ISS

Wed, 28 Aug 2019 10:10:00 +0200

The Crew Interactive Mobile CompaniON (CIMON) mobile astronaut assistant, which is equipped with artificial intelligence (AI), returned to Earth on 27 August 2019. The SpaceX CRS-18 Dragon spacecraft carrying CIMON was undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 16:59 CEST; the capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean approximately 480 kilometres southwest of Los Angeles and was recovered at 22:21 CEST.

German aerospace research at MAKS in Moscow

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 12:50:00 +0200

The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has traditionally attended the International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS, Russia's national aerospace show, which takes place every two years in Zhukovsky, Moscow. This year the event will take place from 27 August to 1 September 2019 and will be DLR's eighth appearance.

EDEN ISS project presents results of a new greenhouse concept for future space missions

Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:40:00 +0200

Future food production in deserts and cold regions, as well as under the inhospitable conditions of future space missions to the Moon and Mars, is providing the stimulus for research in the Antarctic greenhouse project EDEN ISS, which is led by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR).

The near-Earth asteroid Ryugu – a fragile cosmic 'rubble pile'

Thu, 22 Aug 2019 20:30:00 +0200

In the summer of 2018, the asteroid Ryugu, which measures only approximately 850 metres across, was visited by the Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft. On board was the 10-kilogram German-French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) – a lander no bigger than a microwave oven and equipped with four instruments.