News

It was a pleasure to welcome the representatives of the Bavarian Parliament yesterday in our Department of Aerospace and Geodesy and to present our lunar research. Read more about the visit of the Bavarian Parliament here.   [read more]

This week, our team was at the 54th LPSC in Houston, presenting the latest work on lunar exosphere modelling, permittivity sensor developments, and PROSPECT landing site selection.  Check out the abstracts below: Lunar exosphere  Permittivity sensors  PROSPECT landing sites  [read more]

Starting summer term 2023, we will offer a series of new courses: Space Exploration Near-Earth Objects for Engineers and Physicists Master Seminar in Lunar and Planetary Exploration Find out more: Teaching [read more]

Just released: our new Research Topic in Frontiers in Space Technologies on "Technologies for Prospecting, Extraction, and Utilization of Space Resources". Open for submissions until 23 July! Learn more​​​​​​​ [read more]

On Tuesday, December 06 2022, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) announced the winners of the Microlauncher Payload Competition at the 2022 Small Satellites Conference (Kleinsatellitenkonferenz) in Berlin. The prize is a free launch on the first rocket of Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA). Among the… [read more]

Starting winter term 2022/23 we will offer a new course on "Space Resources", see: Teaching. [read more]

Interview of the TUM School of Engineering and Design regarding the appointment of Prof. Philipp Reiss [read more]

On 1 July, more than 30 chairs and groups presented themselves in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the information fair "Lehrstuhl-Orientierungs-, Informations- und Forschungstagung" (LOIFT). We were there with our own stand and thank the many students who stopped by for interesting chats… [read more]

Starting summer term 2022 we will offer the pracical course "Spacecraft Thermal Analysis and Test", see: Teaching. [read more]