The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is the national aeronautics and space research centre of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its extensive research and development work in aeronautics, space, energy, transport, digitalisation and security is integrated into national and international cooperative ventures. In addition to its own research, as Germany’s space agency, DLR has been given responsibility by the federal government for the planning and implementation of the German space programme. DLR is also the umbrella organisation for the nation’s largest project management agency.

DLR has approximately 8000 employees at 20 locations in Germany: Cologne (headquarters), Augsburg, Berlin, Bonn, Braunschweig, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Dresden, Goettingen, Hamburg, Jena, Juelich, Lampoldshausen, Neustrelitz, Oberpfaffenhofen, Oldenburg, Stade, Stuttgart, Trauen and Weilheim. DLR also has offices in Brussels, Paris, Tokyo and Washington D.C.

MBB BO-105C D-HDDP DLR

Aircraft

Bo 105 (for ATTHeS In-Flight Simulator)

EC 135 (for Flying Helicopter Simulator (FHS))

VFW 614 (for ATTAS)

Boeing 747SP (DLR/NASA project for SOFIA)

Airbus A320-232 (“D-ATRA”)

Zeppelin NT (for traffic analysis)

Cessna 208B Grand Caravan (“D-FDLR”)

Dassault Falcon 20E (“D-CMET”)

DG 300 Elan-17 (glider)

Dornier Do 228-101 (“D-CODE”)

Dornier Do 228-212 (“D-CFFU”)

DR 400/200R Remorqueur (“D-EDVE”)

Gulfstream G550 (“D-ADLR”, for HALO)

LFU 205 (“D-ELFU”, since 1985)

Grob Strato 2C (“D-CDLR”, retired)

Space

Examples of DLR (or parent institution) current space missions. Many of these are also joint or international missions.

Hayabusa 2

TanDEM-X – TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurement

Prisma

SATCOMBw

TerraSAR-X

Columbus

Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)

BIRD – Bispectral InfraRed Detector

FIREBIRD, the BIRD successor mission consisting of TET-1 (Technology Experiment Carrier) and BIROS (Bispectral InfraRed Optical Satellite, formerly Berlin InfraRed Optical Satellite)

GRACE – Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment

SAR-Lupe

Dawn (spacecraft)

Airbus A320-232 D-ATRA DLR

ALAADy Demonstrator

Cessna 208B Grand Caravan D-FDLR DLR

Boeing 747SP Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) NASA/DLR

Dassault Falcon 20E-5 D-CMET DLR

DLR Low Noise Aircraft

DLR Prometheus

Eurocopter EC-135T-1 D-HFHS DLR

Cessna 208B Grand Caravan D-FDLR DLR

Lange E-1 Antares DLR-H2 D-KDLR DLR

MBB BO-105C D-HDDP DLR

Live-Lage-Projekt

Lange E-1 Antares DLR-H2 D-KDLR DLR

Schempp-Hirth Discus-2c D-9833 DLR

SpaceLiner RLV

SpaceLiner RLV

SpaceLiner RLV

Photos Rob Vogelaar