Mission Archive

DLR/Roscosmos · 2019

Sun–Earth L2

A Russian-German X-ray observatory at the Sun–Earth L2 point, built to survey the whole sky. The German eROSITA telescope was switched to safe mode in February 2022; the Russian ART-XC telescope continues to observe.

NASA/DLR/CNES · 2018

Mars

A NASA lander that listened to the interior of Mars, recording more than 1,300 marsquakes and measuring the size of the planet's core.

JAXA/DLR/CNES · 2014

Ryugu

A JAXA mission that collected samples from the asteroid Ryugu and returned them to Earth in December 2020. The spacecraft is now on an extended mission to other asteroids.

NASA/DLR/SERC · 1990

Low Earth orbit

A German-led X-ray observatory, built with the United States and the United Kingdom, that made the first imaging X-ray survey of the whole sky and catalogued more than 150,000 sources.