February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... centrifuge before being placed in a freezer. We have three freezers at minus 94C where we keep the samples until they can hitch a ride back home. Cristoforetti in Cupola with the famous cup of espresso Sometimes we ...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
... around the Sun. The initial idea was even more ambitious - to land on the surface, collect a material sample and bring it back to Earth To achieve this the spacecraft had to reach the orbital energy of the comet...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... (formerly 1999 JU3) in 2018 to support the search for a suitable place for the main spacecraft to acquire a sample that will be returned to Earth. In addition to exploring asteroids, DLR is also participating in various missions to the outer and...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... to signals. In addition, the unremitting march of digital technology has allowed more of the radio spectrum to be sampled in a given amount of time. For radio telescope arrays, additional computational power can be used to ‘look’ at several...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... signals are acquired for different concentrations and kinds of plastics in different degradation states. Some of the plastic samples used were collected in the Pacific and Atlantic garbage patches and frozen immediately afterwards to preserve the...
October 2020
Connecting the global space community
...-Earth asteroids (at the end of 2020), so next year we might have some interesting scientific results. These asteroid samples will be analysed in order to better understand the history of our solar system and the properties of these intriguing...
