June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... a similar approach will be followed for future (cislunar) projects. As another example of this trend, ESA and Germany’s DLR are supporting European companies in developing micro-launchers via grants, instead of developing their own new smallsat...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
..., the AI-powered CIMON-2 (Crew Interactive MObile companioN), developed and built by Airbus on behalf of the DLR, is capable of assessing astronauts’ emotions and reacting in a manner that is appropriate to the situation. It is expected to remain...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... on the day of the final critique. About the authors Volker Maiwald is a system and mission analyst for DLR with a PhD in the field of low-thrust trajectory optimisation from Bremen University. He has been a lecturer in spaceflight...
October 2024
Off-Earth risks to the human skeleton
... bones of tester Alexey Fedorov (above) during SIRIUS-21, using the XCT2000L peripheral X-ray computer tomograph (pQCT) (DLR)and (above left) studying changes in body composition and body fluids in the frame of the Eskiz (Sketch...
15 November 2014
Pioneering Philae completes main mission before hibernation
... depleted. “It has been a huge success, the whole team is delighted,” said Stephan Ulamec, lander manager at the DLR German Aerospace Agency, who monitored Philae’s progress from ESA’s Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, this...
07 January 2016
France and Germany May Withdraw from ISS in 2020
... justifiable expense. In a January 5th statement, Pascale Ehrenfreund, chairman of the board of the German Aerospace Center, DLR, said that “In view of the high cost involved and the resulting implications on budgets of [European Space Agency] ...
