In the early morning hours of 12 November 2025, the MAPHEUS-16 sounding rocket successfully lifted off from the Esrange launch site, carrying 21 experiments into microgravity for just over six minutes ...

DLR researchers have developed a fuel cell-powered electric nose wheel that will allow aircraft to save fuel while significantly reducing airport noise. The nose wheel drive system has already ...

Arabidopsis seedlings in BIOLAB containers; wild-type left, right, mutant ...

The effects of the tsunami are shown in a before and after comparison of the Japanese coast between 5 September 2010 (left) and the 12 March 2011 (right). Data: Rapid Eye.

The Coflame burner enables systematic investigations for clean combustion.

DLR's HRSC stereo camera on Mars Express captures the Martian surface from different angles. Using this data, the DLR Institute of Space Research and the Planetology Department of the Free University ...

The sounding rocket with its payload of 21 scientific experiments up top, is ready for launch.

The MAPHEUS-16 flight was the first to be powered by two Red Kite rocket engines. Developed and manufactured by DLR in collaboration with Bayern-Chemie, these engines are highly powerful and enable ...

The Red Kite rocket motor was rolled to the launch pad on a special trolley, raised into a vertical position and then installed.

The DLR flight operations department in Oberpfaffenhofen has been using the Falcon 20E aircraft for over 40 years, primarily for atmospheric research. International research teams measure trace gases ...

The landscapes of Coloe Fossae lie along Mars' dichotomy boundary – the transition from the Martian highlands of Terra Sabaea to the northern lowlands of Utopia Planitia, approximately 55 degrees east ...

ETCA Campus director Sarah Street with Mathias Sperl from the Institute for Frontier Materials on Earth and in Space and Martin Roeb from the Institute of Future Fuels.