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...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
...scales were first derived from a few point samples scattered across vast areas and human interpretation, but... insights to the meteorological community by supplementing the point samples and improving the accuracy and reliability of weather forecasts....
23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
...iridium-rich layer. Accordingly, the team have analysed a core sample of pelagic sediment extracted via the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP... end of the Cretaceous Period. Their analysis of the sample shows a sharp spike of iridium which corresponds to the...
