Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is Germany's national research center for aerospace, energy, and transportation. Acting as the German space agency, DLR is responsible for planning and implementing the German space program on behalf of the federal government. DLR's activities include a wide range of space research, development of space technologies, and operation of research facilities, and it partners with organizations like ESA and various German federal ministries. Key areas of focus include Earth observation, planetary research, human spaceflight, and the development of reusable launch systems.
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The DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) became fully functional after a year of testing and calibration as of 2019-10-24 during the 70th International Astronautical Congress in Washington.
Tesat-Spacecom developed the optical terminals for EDRS-C with the German Space Agency DLR.
The German Space Agency’s Earth Observation Center supplies imagery from Planet’s RapidEye constellation to the International Charter.
The German Space Agency DLR’s Earth Observation Center provides RapidEye imagery under the International Space Charter.
The German space agency DLR began a study in March 2025 on a reusable launcher concept that would use a winged first-stage booster captured on descent by an aircraft and towed back to land.
The European Space Agency and the German space agency DLR opened a 50,000,000 EUR engine test facility in Lampoldshausen, Germany to support Ariane 6 development.
The Granular Anisotropic Gases experiment was developed by Otto-von-Guericke University in Germany and funded by the German space agency DLR.
The Hera spacecraft design will be similar to AIM and will be equipped with a camera that is a flight spare of an instrument developed by the German space agency DLR and used on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft.
InSight carries the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe provided by the German space agency DLR, which features a mole designed to drill about five meters into the surface to measure heat flow.
The 2018-04-29 New Shepard test flight carried several research payloads, including three from German universities arranged by the German microgravity research center ZARM and funded by the German space agency DLR.
Payload customers on New Shepard Mission 8 included NASA’s Johnson Space Center, the commercial communications firm Solstar, and the first European customers funded by the German national space agency DLR.