Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning support the development of energy-efficient aircraft configurations. With these methods, complex flow phenomena can be predicted more quickly.

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 ...

Water extraction in space is immensely important for exploring the Solar System. Under the leadership of DLR, a method has been developed for this very purpose. The LUWEX research project has been ...

In October 2024, DLR and the aircraft manufacturer Deutsche Aircraft will conduct the world's first measurement flights in the tailwind of a turboprop aircraft powered by 100 percent synthetic, ...

With the work of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) working group, we are pursuing the goal of increasing safety and efficiency in aviation. Since the 1980s, we have been successfully conducting ...

Assessing the psychological aptitude of future astronauts has been a core competence of the Department of Aviation and Space Psychology since the first West German space missions in the 1980s. In ...

The path to climate-compatible flying involves energy-efficient aircraft, low-emission engines and optimised flight paths. Digitalisation can accelerate these developments, for example by simulating ...

The DLR Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics is pleased to announce its participation in the Electric and Hybrid Aerospace Technology Symposium at Messe Frankfurt. The focus will be on energy ...

100 kW induction air heater for the investigation of industrial high-temperature power-to-heat solutions ...

The NASA half model is being modified by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) in order to develop and demonstrate suitable physical models for high-precision ...

Depending on the requirements and needs of the users, web applications are created for crisis information or projects, which provide one or more interactive situation images in 2D or 3D view. The web ...

Nowadays in the so called jet-era also turboprops are a reliable and effective drive configuration for a series of aircrafts. From business- and regional planes up to large transport aircrafts ...