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 ...

In a dedicated cleanroom at ESA’s ESTEC facility, preparations are underway to mount the combined sunshield and solar module onto the base of the PLATO spacecraft. For this procedure, the module was ...

In 2018, 2019 and 2022, three major fires affected woodland between the Brandenburg towns of Treuenbrietzen and Jüterbog. Following a series of intense dry periods, the prevalent pine woods were ...

In DLR's CUSTODIAN (Counter-UAS Technologies for Detection, Interception and Neutralization) project, twelve DLR institutes and facilities pool their expertise under the leadership of the Institute of ...

ESA’s PLATO spacecraft in one of the cleanrooms at ESA's ESTEC Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, after installation of the sunshield and solar module. The probe is ...

The mobile detection system detects drones at an early stage. It can also determine their position.

DLR's EO Wald web service offers open-access interactive maps depicting canopy loss across Germany. Losses have been recorded monthly since September 2017, with a spatial resolution of ten metres.

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 ...

In summer 2021, a storm caused severe damage to the forests in Chiemgau north of Lake Chiemsee in Bavaria, as the EO Wald map shows. The colour scale, from black (September 2017) to yellow (September ...

Countless dust devils have swept across the terrain, removing the reddish dust along their paths. A single active dust devil and its shadow can be seen in the centre of this CaSSIS image.

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