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- HALO is flying again today! 🥳 You can track it live on flightradar 🤓🌍
- The @dlr-en.bsky.social Gulfstream is over the North Atlantic today collecting data for the North Atlantic Waveguide, Dry Intrusion, and Downstream Impact Campaign (NAWDIC). Follow along with the flight at www.flightradar24.com/DADLR/3dfb5aab More info on the research: www.nawdic.kit.edu/index.php
- ESA's Plato spacecraft gets shaken to its core! 🚀 These vibration tests simulate the extreme forces during lift-off – one of many checks to ensure a successful journey to space. 📹: @esa.int #plato #shakeit #vibecheck #dlr
- 🌍 Winter storms in Europe are hard to predict because key processes start high over the North Atlantic. 💨 Dry air intrusions can worsen many storms as they travel from North America to Europe. ✈️ HALO is now stationed in Ireland to take measurements across the Atlantic, improving weather models.
- Good News! The deadline has been moved to the 23rd of February! 🥳🤩 Use the link below to send your #GoodLuckMMX wishes 👇
- Your reminder to send your #GoodLuckMMX wishes to Idefix, the DLR/CNES rover, before the 18th of January (this Sunday)! And don’t forget to collect your boarding certificate! 🥳 You can find the form at the bottom of JAXA’s website: goodluck-mmx.jp/en/
- Your reminder to send your #GoodLuckMMX wishes to Idefix, the DLR/CNES rover, before the 18th of January (this Sunday)! And don’t forget to collect your boarding certificate! 🥳 You can find the form at the bottom of JAXA’s website: goodluck-mmx.jp/en/
- 🚀 For the New Year, share your #GoodLuckMMX wishes to JAXA Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission and the DLR-@cnes.fr Idefix rover – and they’ll fly on a memory card inside the return capsule on the 2026 mission to Phobos – the Martian moon named after fear itself.🌌
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- Did Mars scrape its knee? 🔴 Not quite. These ‘yardangs’ are elongated ridges carved by wind into rock over millions of years. Mars' thin atmosphere (less than 1% of Earth's pressure) still packs enough punch to sandblast the surface – even areas like these, which are almost the size of Belgium! 💨
- Small satellites: tiny, affordable and flexible 🚀 They can monitor wildfires, map ocean waves in 3D and countless else 🌍 Discover how they’re changing space research and why future smallsats might even be wood based, in the latest edition of the DLRmagazine! www.dlr.de/en/media/pub... #DLR #smallsat
- What a year. ✨ 2025 was packed with projects, collaborations, and milestones we’re proud of. Thank you to everyone who made it possible - we can’t wait to see what the next year has in store! 🎉😀 #2026 here we come!
- 🚀 For the New Year, share your #GoodLuckMMX wishes to JAXA Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission and the DLR-@cnes.fr Idefix rover – and they’ll fly on a memory card inside the return capsule on the 2026 mission to Phobos – the Martian moon named after fear itself.🌌
- Ever wondered how much carbon our forests store? DLR’s Dornier DO 228-212 aircraft recently flew in sync with ESA’s Biomass satellite over Gabon’s rainforest. They calibrated the satellite’s radar so that it can precisely determine the biomass (total mass of living material) hidden in our forests.
- Summer 2026 is sorted!🎉😎 Join the International Space Weather Camp hosted by the University of Alabama (US) and @dlr-de.bsky.social and explore space weather hands-on: work in small teams on projects from numerical data analysis to building satellite receivers. 🔬🔩
- 🚀 Last month, Germany committed €5.4 billion for the future of Europe in space at ESA’s Ministerial Council. This represents 23% of ESA’s €22 billion budget and will support a wide range of important research and science projects 🔧. @esa.int #esa #futureofeuropeanspace
- We are celebrating 15 years of our TanDEM-X mission! 🥳🎉 For over a decade, the satellites TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X have collected valuable data to create 3D models of Earth’s surface 🗺️ (Digital Elevation Models) used by scientists worldwide to track glaciers , monitor forests , map cities, and more.
- 🚁 DLR has a drone test centre that is unique in Europe in Cochstedt (DE) – and is operating right next to an active airport. Thanks to a new permanent GeoZone, larger drones and more complex flights can now be tested without long approval processes. A big step towards safer, real-world drone tech!
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- HAP-alpha just wrapped a successful ground test! 🚀 Our solar-powered aircraft took a test roll across the airfield while we checked flight preparation procedures and tested aircraft systems. Next stop: final fine-tuning and, eventually, its first real take-off in 2026 – low-altitude flight tests!🌍✨
- This month we’re flying over Idaeus Fossae on Mars: home to the 1500 m deep ‘Butterfly crater’ 🦋and table mountains – or mesas - towering 1000 m high ⛰️ 📸HRSC data lets us turn these views into detailed terrain models – and uncover Mars’ geological history 🗺️ #HRSC #Mars #Astronomy #butterflycrater
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- Coming Soon: DLR Design Challenge 2026! The DLR Design Challenge 2026 is your chance to design the experimental aircraft of tomorrow! Explore future aviation tech, compete with top students, gain expert feedback, earn recognition, and present on major aerospace stages. ✈️ #DLRDesignChallenge #DLR
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- 💨Did you know contrails impact the climate as much as all aviation CO₂? ✈️The EU-funded #A4CLIMATE project is tackling this challenge with real-time contrail measurements, smart flight paths, new engine technologies and alternative fuels – paving the way for smart, clean and competitive aviation.🌍
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- 🌕 On the hunt for Moon water! 💧 Researchers have tested innovative methods to detect water on the Moon as part of the Polar Explorer campaign. Using rovers, lasers, and radar📡, they successfully mapped water ice deposits hidden on and under the surface of our 700 m2 LUNA analogue hall. 🧊
- DLR is back at Space Tech Expo 2025! 🚀 From rocket technologies to Earth observation – join us from November 18–20 at the 10th edition of Space Tech Expo in Bremen. 🇩🇪 As one of the largest exhibitors, we’re showcasing cutting-edge innovations you don’t want to miss.
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- Martian ice age: Tectonic drift 🧊❄️ New #HRSC images from @esa.int's #MarsExpress reveal Coloe Fossae – trenches carved by glaciers and tectonic shifts during a long past Martian ice age. A window into Mars’s climate history… Just don’t expect cynical mammoths or goofy sloths strolling by! 🦣🦥
- A successful launch for MAPHEUS-16! 🚀 Launched from SSC’s Esrange site early this morning, this sounding rocket carried 21 science experiments – from 3D printing to organoids – into microgravity, advancing materials science, tech and medical research for both space and Earth. 🌌🌍
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- 🛰️Sentinel-1D satellite successfully launched! 🚀 Together with its companion satellite Sentinel-1C (launched in 2024), 1D will capture Earth’s surface in its entirety every 6 days! A major step for Earth observation.🌍 ℹ️ www.dlr.de/en/latest/ne...
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- 🌕 From Moon dust to mission essentials! At the #LUNA hall, 8 teams competed in the @esa.int Space Resources Challenge 2025. Team BREMEN (DLR + DFKI) showed off with the Coyote III rover🤖 & a Moon dust processor 🏗️– paving the way for long-term missions to the Moon! 🌙
- ✈️ Science in free-fall! @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social's 45th parabolic flight campaign lifts off from 🇫🇷! Eleven German experiments explore microgravity aboard the ZERO-G Airbus—from hydrogen bubbles to liquid metal spacecraft tech. 🔬 35 mins of weightlessness, without even going to space!🌍
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- 🚀Ariane 6 Vinci engine – now made in Germany! 🇩🇪 Following a joint agreement by ArianeGroup and DLR, ArianeGroup Germany will take over final assembly and testing of the Vinci engine — the powerhouse behind Ariane 6’s upper stage!
- 🚁 New drone test facility unveiled! As part of the #Flybots initiative, a collaboration with @tu-braunschweig.de, we have constructed a drone cage ⛓️ – a place where unmanned aerial systems can be tested in a safe environment, with no chance of them flying off 🪰
- 📡✈️ Quantum communication takes off! As part of the QuNET initiative, researchers from DLR and partners have successfully measured quantum channels between a DLR research aircraft and a ground station — a major milestone in quantum-secure communication. 📢
