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Using the centrifuge for space tourism 20 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm
The first tickets have already been sold to space tourists – the passengers, however, will not be as fit or healthy as astronauts, but rather people with greatly varying health conditions. This is why...
New, globally unique combustor test facility at DLR 14 Aug 2013 | 07:21 pm
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is building up its resources for investigating environment-friendly gas turbines and to this end has teamed up with industr...
Fuel efficiency with insect protection 9 Aug 2013 | 04:03 pm
A windscreen full of insect remains is a familiar experience on the roads in summer. It is no different on the runway at the airport. On warm days, aircraft sometimes collide with entire swarms of ins...
Greater safety in aviation – detecting turbulence in advance 5 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
Many aircraft passengers are familiar with the phenomenon; the sky is clear and blue, the aircraft is cruising calmly, but suddenly everything is disrupted by temporary turbulence. Passengers frequent...
Time for SocialSpace at German Aerospace Day 2013 2 Aug 2013 | 02:07 pm
Recently, we at the German Aerospace Center DLR and our partner European Space Agency ESA rebranded our SpaceTweetup concept as SocialSpace. Now it's time for our first SocialSpace. We are inviting 60...
Being ‘social’ with DLR and ESA 1 Aug 2013 | 05:58 pm
Space Tweetups by the German Aerospace Center, DLR, and the European Space Agency ESA are becoming even more social. Originally conceived as real-life meetups of Twitter followers, they will now be op...
The man who set forth to capture the wind 31 Jul 2013 | 02:30 pm
Holger Hennings was one of the first people to show an interest in wind power. He followed the failure of the large Growian science project and saw how wind power turbines went on to become a surprisi...
Alphasat I-XL – a quantum leap for satellite communications 26 Jul 2013 | 02:09 am
Everyday life is dominated by information. Constantly growing volumes of data have to be transported around the globe. Satellite telecommunications play an important role in ensuring that such data re...
SOFIA explores the southern sky over New Zealand 18 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
For the first time, SOFIA – the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, has been deployed to the southern hemisphere. Based at the airport in Christchurch, New Zealand for three weeks, SOFIA...
MAPHEUS-4: X-rays in microgravity 15 Jul 2013 | 06:04 pm
Close to four minutes of microgravity prevailed in the sounding rocket MAPHEUS-4, which was launched on 15 July 2013 at 07:53 local time, from the Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden.
