With its know-how and overall system expertise in passive and active microwaves, the Microwaves and Radar Institute develops innovative sensors, algorithms and applications for ground-based, airborne ...

If you are interested in taking part in studies as a test person, please check this page regularly. As soon as we are looking for study participants for further studies, the applications will also be ...

After 100 days in the sealed compartments of their 'space station', the participants stepped out into daylight on 1 August 2026 at the DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine, following the end of the ...

Our Executive Board is comprised of full-time members, with their number and place of work being specified by the Senate. The members of the Executive Board are appointed for a maximum of five years.

The DLR Library is a specialised scientific library and internal service provider for DLR. As part of the research process, it provides DLR with scientific and general information of all kinds. On ...

EUMETSAT is the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites with headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. It operates a system of meteorological satellites in geostationary and ...

From an orbit of 830 kilometres, the METimage multispectral radiometer captures a 2,670-kilometer-wide strip of Earth's surface every 1.7 seconds with a resolution of 500 metres. This is made possible ...

Das DLR und das Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) der EUROCONTROL haben gemeinsam erstmals den praktischen Nachweis geführt, dass sich langlebige Kondensstreifen durch geringe Veränderung ...

The PLATO space mission will use 26 cameras to search for Earth-like planets around 200,000 stars in the Milky Way, starting in late 2026. DLR is leading the PLATO payload consortium and supplying ...

New Earth observation datasets reveal the diversity and usage of agricultural land. Estimates of water requirements and pest susceptibility are also made possible. Sentinel satellite data was analysed ...

On 26 September 2023, the DLR Robotics and Mechatronics Center in Oberpfaffenhofen opened its Moon-Mars test site. Among other things, the test site allows researchers to test their exploration robots ...

More than 15,100 offshore wind turbines are in operation worldwide – with China operating more than half of them. China has seen rapid growth in offshore wind capacity in recent years, with installed ...