Media Relations

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German multispectral camera METimage set to improve weather forecasts
August 5, 2025

German multispectral camera METimage set to improve weather forecasts

At 02:37 CEST on 13 August 2025 (21:37 local time on 12 August), the Metop-SGA1 satellite of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) will lift off from Kourou, French Guiana, on an Ariane 6 rocket.

Marching towards Mars – ISS robot experiment 'Surface Avatar' successfully concludes
July 25, 2025

Marching towards Mars – ISS robot experiment 'Surface Avatar' successfully concludes

Four robots and a live link to the International Space Station ISS made for an unusual scene at the DLR 'Earthly Mars' site in Oberpfaffenhofen. On 24 July 2025, the Surface Avatar team carried out the final and most challenging experiment of the campaign to date.

Test flights over Bavaria inform upcoming Earth‑observation space missions
July 24, 2025

Test flights over Bavaria inform upcoming Earth‑observation space missions

How healthy is our soil – and how can early changes be detected? In spring and summer 2025, DLR teamed up with various research institutions to investigate these questions over the Puch region near Munich, Germany.

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Andreas Schütz

Head of Corporate Communications, DLR Spokesperson
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
Linder Höhe, 51147 Cologne
Tel: +49 2203 601-2474

Falk Dambowsky

Head of Media Relations, Editor
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
Linder Höhe, 51147 Cologne
Tel: +49 2203 601-3959

Denise Nüssle

Editor
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart
Tel: +49 711 6862-8086

Katja Lenz

Editor
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
Linder Höhe, 51147 Cologne
Tel: +49 2203 601-5401

Andreas Ellmerer

Audiovisual editor
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
Linder Höhe, 51147 Cologne
Tel: +49 2203 601-3983

Philipp Burtscheidt

Senior editor DLR media relations
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
Linder Höhe, 51147 Cologne
Tel: +49 2203 601-2323

Bernadette Jung

Editor
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
Münchener Straße 20, 82234 Weßling
Tel: +49 8153 28-2251

Martin Fleischmann

German Aerospace Center (DLR)
German Space Agency at DLR
Communications & Press
Königswinterer Straße 522-524, 53227 Bonn
Tel: +49 228 447-120

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Jana Hoidis

Corporate Communications Bremen, Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Oldenburg, Geesthacht, Kiel
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
Am Fallturm 9, 28359 Bremen
Tel: +49 421 24420-1908

Melanie-Konstanze Wiese

Corporate Communications Berlin, Neustrelitz, Dresden, Jena and Cottbus/Zittau
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
Rutherfordstraße 2, 12489 Berlin-Adlershof
Tel: +49 30 67055-639

Jasmin Begli

Corporate Communications Braunschweig, Cochstedt, Stade and Trauen
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
Lilienthalplatz 7, 38108 Braunschweig
Tel: +49 531 295-2108

Jens Wucherpfennig

Corporate Communications, Göttingen and Hanover
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
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Tel: +49 551 709-2108

Michel Winand

Corporate Communications Aachen, Bonn, Cologne, Jülich, Rheinbach and Sankt Augustin
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
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Tel: +49 2203 601-2144

Anja Kaboth

Corporate Communications Lampoldshausen
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
Im Langen Grund, 74239 Hardthausen
Tel: +49 6298 28-201

Jens Mende

Corporate Communications Stuttgart and Ulm
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart
Tel: +49 0711 6862-229

Miriam Poetter

Corporate Communications, Oberpfaffenhofen, Augsburg, Weilheim
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
Münchener Straße 20, 82234 Weßling
Tel: +49 8153 28-2297

Ulrike Markwitz

Corporate Communications, Oberpfaffenhofen, Weilheim, Augsburg
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
Münchener Straße 20, 82234 Weßling
Tel: +49 8153 28-1851

Anja Philipp

Corporate Communications Berlin, Neustrelitz, Dresden, Jena, Cottbus/Zittau
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Corporate Communications
Rutherfordstraße 2, 12489 Berlin-Adlershof
Tel: +49 306 7055-8034

Further contacts

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