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Many of the Institute of Communications and Navigation's projects and topics are also covered in DLRmagazin. In richly illustrated articles, it provides an insight into DLR's research areas - from aeronautics, space, energy and transport to digitalization and security. The 60-page publication is published several times a year in German and English and can be delivered to your home free of charge if you subscribe.

Vertical take-offs on the city's skyline

How an urban air taxi system might work - DLRmagazin Nr. 174, March 2024

Full steam ahead for autonomous shipping

Sensors and systems from space to the sea - DLRmagazin Nr. 174, March 2024

League of extraordinary robots

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Today Etna, tomorrow the Moon – robots explore together - DLRmagazin Nr. 171, November 2022

With a fraction of a second

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Achieving improved positioning and timing with an iodine clock, a frequency comb and a laser terminal - DLRmagazin Nr. 170, May 2022

Jumping on board the digital transformation

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How DLR is preparing rail transport for the future with innovative ideas, concepts and technology - DLRmagazin Nr. 169, Dec. 2021

Qubits hit the ground running

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A new research initiative supports quantum computing ‘made in Germany’ - DLRmagazin Nr. 168, Sept. 2021

Crossing frontiers

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A solar-powered stratospheric aircraft combines the advantages of spaceflight and aeronautics - DLRmagazin Nr. 167, May 2021

Protected areas

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DLR experts are conducting research into how autonomous and networked systems can be protected against cyberattacks - DLRmagazin Nr. 166, Dec. 2020

White spots must disappear

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Research into high-performance satellite communications is being conducted as part of the DLR cross-sectoral project ‘Global Connectivity via Satellite’ - DLRmagazin Nr. 164, April 2020

Go with the floe

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An international research team is drifting across the northern Arctic Ocean, frozen in the sea ice, on a mission to improve our understanding of the Arctic and climate change - DLRmagazin Nr. 163, Dec. 2019

Digital - from tower to flight deck

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LDACS digital aeronautical communications – secure data and voice transmission - DLRmagazin Nr. 161, July 2019

Tracking radio waves

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When information is transmitted by radio – whether for communications, position determination or authentication – it must reach its destination reliably and be received correctly. Also, in view of increasing levels of automation, ever-increasing importance is attached to having reliable communications links between various systems - DLRmagazin Nr. 158, July 2018

Safe at sea

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DLR know-how for standardised navigation data - DLRmagazin Nr. 155, Sept. 2017

High-speed chase for signals

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Report from a nocturnal measurement campaign in the Italian express train Frecciarossa - DLRmagazin Nr. 151/152, Nov. 2016

Weathering the solar storm

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Researchers in Neustrelitz work on predicting space weather - DLRmagazin Nr. 150, June 2016

It takes two to tango

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Field campaign in Heligoland investigates the transfer of large amounts of data at sea - DLRmagazin Nr. 148/149, March 2016

50 years of the Institute of Communications and Navigation

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From early communications satellites to swarm intelligence - DLRmagazin Nr. 148/149, March 2016

Sicher durch Bruecken und Schleusen (dt)

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Neue Fahrerassistenzsysteme unterstützen Schiffsführer in der Binnenschifffahrt, DLRmagazin 143, Sept. 2014

Datentransfer via Lichtstrahl (dt)

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DLR-Ausgründung ViaLight sorgt für leistungsstarke Kommunikation, DLRmagazin 138, Juni 2013

Stoerungen unerwuenscht (dt)

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Oberstes Gebot der Satellitennavigation: die Signalgenauigkeit, DLRmagazin, Juni 2013

Gute Fahrt mit Hilfe aus dem All (dt)

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Kommunikationsdienste für Fahrzeuge der nächsten Generation (von Sandro Scalise und Thomas Strang, Inst. f. Komm. u. Nav.), DLRmagazin 137, April 201

Intelligence on wheels

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Going into business for themselves with an anti-collision system - an interview with company founders Thomas Strang and Andreas Lehner, DLRmagazin 135, Sept. 2012

Laserkommunikation im Fokus (dt)

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Im DLR Oberpfaffenhofen erkunden Experten den Einsatz optischer Datenübertragung zwischen Luft und Boden (von Florian Moll und Christian Fuchs, Inst. f. Komm. u. Nav.), DLRmagazin 132, Nov. 2011