There is a significant risk of flutter in aircraft wings, wind turbines and aircraft engine blades. Flutter is an aeroelastic instability which, under simplified linear conditions, once set in motion ...

[2] Yujia Qiu, Xiao-Ming Li, Thomas Busche and Lijian Shi X and C-band SAR Signatures of Sea Ice in the Bohai Sea IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (ISI ...

We are happy to announce that last week, on November 5-6, 2024, our colleague Fabian Hochberg won the „ARGUS Science Award 2024“ (First Place) for his master thesis entitled „Theoretische und ...

Last week, our colleague Dr. Stefan Baumgartner was awarded the „Otto-Lilienthal-Forschungssemesters 2024” during a scientific colloquium at the DLR Space Agency in Bonn. After receiving this ...

As of 1 January 2025, the EU will implement an MRV system (Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification) to monitor non-CO₂ effects in aviation in order to capture their climate impact, such as contrail ...

DLR's MAPHEUS 15 research rocket has successfully launched. It marks the 600th launch from the Esrange rocket base in the north of Sweden. The rocket carried 21 scientific experiments onboard. Focus: ...

From December 3-4, 2024, the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics invites you to the eXplore robotics event. New robotics and artificial intelligence technologies are a key part of the solution to ...

Albrecht Berblinger Prize recognises Tommaso Zaccarias publication on the resilience of bacterial pathogens under Martian conditions and the potential implications for human missions to Mars Focus: ...

For some, it feels like just yesterday; for others, it's like an entire era of comet research. Ten years ago, on 12 November 2014, the Philae lander made the first-ever landing on a comet in the ...

The new institute consolidates research expertise on air transport and positions itself as a key point of contact for industry, society and policymakers. It is a merger of DLR's Institute of Air ...

On 6 November 2024, the Dynamic Motion Simulation Center (DMSC) was officially opened at DLR's Oberpfaffenhofen site. The new research platform for flight and driving simulations supports a wide range ...

In this blog about the DLR-NASA bed rest study, the 'Sensorimotor Countermeasures Study (SMC)', we report on the lives of participants and the work of the large team around them, as well as what it ...