Part of the MMX rover was assembled in the clean room of the DLR Institute of Space Systems in Bremen. The assembly and locomotion system was developed and built at the DLR Robotics and Mechatronics Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen. The DLR Institute of Composite Structures and Adaptive Systems contributed the particularly lightweight carbon structure.
The integration laboratory enables the realisation of projects with flight hardware. Depending on the scientific issue with the instruments on board and the destination of the spacecraft, the flight missions are assembled with varying degrees of purity.
The integration hall is the place where the mechanics undergo continuous training and constantly pass on new experience in the use of innovative techniques and processes to future teams.
The integration hall is the place where the mechanics undergo continuous training and constantly pass on new experience in the use of innovative techniques and processes to future teams. The centrepiece of this hall is particle-reduced integration, which can vary at the different workstations depending on the project. Work on equipment that is to explore planets for the existence of life forms is subject to special protection against contamination by organisms or viruses. For example, equipment for a Mars mission is monitored extremely closely. For this purpose, a special protective area is set up in the integration hall, which may only be entered by mechanics wearing special protective clothing. Missions that have already been successfully completed in Bremen include MASCOT, AISat and Insight.
