August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... in 2017; DLR is contributing the laser altimeter BELA as well as the infrared spectrometer MERTIS. Starting in 2022, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will be launched to investigate the gas giant and its moons. DLR will...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... of life that could exist within the ice or below the surface ice cover of the icy moons of Jupiter for example. I was again very surprised by the endurance of these extraordinary creatures. They are not only...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... programme. Looking further into the future and Musk sees his interplanetary spacecraft taking people as far as Jupiter and Saturn. Yet Elon Musk and others like him are showing that they are not...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... sky up to stellar absolute magnitude 19-20 of non-moving objects. To put this into perspective, Callirrhoe, a satellite of Jupiter which is 8.6 km in diameter, has an absolute magnitude of 21 and the visible light limit of the Hubble Space Telescope...
