We are delighted to announce that Harald Anglberger, Carlos Villamil and Manfred Hager received the Horst Rauck Founder Prize in recognition of their successful establishment of TerraLens. The ...
We were delighted that Dr. John Horack paid us a visit on October 15, 2025 during his tour of Germany. As holder of the Neil Armstrong Chair in Aerospace Policy at Ohio State University and with ...
Researchers installed an optical communication terminal into the Dornier 228 aircraft, which acted a mobile node in a quantum network and established a connection to a ground station. The flight ...
After its arrival in the ESTEC cleanroom, the spacecraft was placed in a tent that supplies the clean air required for its sensitive optical instruments. At this stage it is still covered with a ...
In this scenario, the interceptor drone detects the intruding drone and pursues it. DLR has already successfully demonstrated various drone defence measures.
Engineers install the sunshield and solar module onto ESA's PLATO satellite. The work took place on 9 September 2025 in a dedicated cleanroom at ESA's ESTEC facility in the Netherlands. The team ...
For this new study, researchers trained an artificial neural network to detect dust devils. The result: a catalogue of all 1039 dust devil images recorded by Mars Express since 2004 and by the ExoMars ...
Are there planets similar to Earth? Do they orbit stars like our Sun? How do planetary systems form and evolve? To answer these and other questions, ESA will launch the PLATO mission at the end of ...
Engineers at OHB in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, inspect Plato's newly installed cameras on the spacecraft's optical bench – the structure that keeps all cameras firmly pointed in the right direction.
Slightly time-shifted image channels make it possible to observe the movement and direction of the dust devils directly.
Die Nutzung globaler Navigationssatellitensysteme im Alltag sind heute nicht mehr wegzudenken. Werden Signale absichtlich ...