25 March 2019
Moon isolation experiment begins in Moscow
...,” says Christian Rogon, SIRIUS-19 Project Manager at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), who are participating in the SIRIUS-19 isolation study. “For this, as in SIRIUS-19, they [the astronauts] must be able...
June 2015
FanWing: short take-off capability creates a new way to fly
... a twoyear research award. And that’s where the company stands now. Fanwing’s future The project is led by DLR, the German Space and Aerospace Research Centre; the team has conducted preliminary wind-tunnel tests...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... also carry the MASCOT-2 (Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout-2) micro lander, supplied by the German Aerospace Center DLR. It’s a direct descendant of the MASCOT-1 lander currently aboard JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission, embarked on a mission to Near-Earth...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
...ruled out to e.g. UV radiation or liquid disinfectants. A current ‘Proof of Principle’ project is being financed by the German Space Agency (DLR), with support from the Russian IBMP (Institute for Biomedical Problems) and ESA, in order to explore the...
August 2016
Rosetta overcomes major setback
... high. In the evening of 6 January, Manfred and I travelled to Berlin for a special public event organised by ESA and DLR, the German Space Agency, to present the Rosetta mission. When we arrived in Berlin we realised that everyone unofficially...
October 2016
Simulating space in a bathtub
.... More and more researchers, both Russian and foreign, participate in the Institute of Biomedical Problems immersion experiments - DLR (Germany), Université d’Angers and Université de Cannes (France), and others. The study of other body functions and...
