In a dedicated cleanroom at ESA’s ESTEC facility, preparations are underway to mount the combined sunshield and solar module onto the base of the PLATO spacecraft. For this procedure, the module was ...

In 2018, 2019 and 2022, three major fires affected woodland between the Brandenburg towns of Treuenbrietzen and Jüterbog. Following a series of intense dry periods, the prevalent pine woods were ...

ESA’s PLATO spacecraft in one of the cleanrooms at ESA's ESTEC Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, after installation of the sunshield and solar module. The probe is ...

DLR's EO Wald web service offers open-access interactive maps depicting canopy loss across Germany. Losses have been recorded monthly since September 2017, with a spatial resolution of ten metres.

The Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park stretches across 10,000 hectares in western Rhineland-Palatinate and extends into Saarland. The map from DLR's EO Wald web service shows the decline in canopy cover ...

In summer 2021, a storm caused severe damage to the forests in Chiemgau north of Lake Chiemsee in Bavaria, as the EO Wald map shows. The colour scale, from black (September 2017) to yellow (September ...

The mobile detection system detects drones at an early stage. It can also determine their position.

Researchers installed an optical communication terminal into the Dornier 228 aircraft, which acted a mobile node in a quantum network and established a connection to a ground station. The flight ...

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Slightly time-shifted image channels make it possible to observe the movement and direction of the dust devils directly.

In this scenario, the interceptor drone detects the intruding drone and pursues it. DLR has already successfully demonstrated various drone defence measures.

After its arrival in the ESTEC cleanroom, the spacecraft was placed in a tent that supplies the clean air required for its sensitive optical instruments. At this stage it is still covered with a ...