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Satellites, like this small satellite from TU Berlin, are then dependent on batteries when they fly through Earth's shadow on their orbit and their solar cells cannot generate energy.

A focus of TU Berlin is on the battery management system, which monitors voltage, current, temperature, and state of charge of the cells, thereby ensuring safe operation in space. The development is based, among other things, on experiences from the successful TUBIN satellite mission. Here, the fully integrated TUBIN satellite can be seen in the laboratory of the Department of Aerospace Engineering.

07.07.2026
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Science

In the "SpaceBox" project, the Department of Aerospace Engineering at TU Berlin collaborates with Berlin industry partners to develop lighter and more efficient energy storage systems for satellites.

Energy for the orbit

Satellites rely on reliable energy storage: when they pass through Earth's shadow in their orbit, their solar cells cannot generate energy. Batteries bridge these phases and support operation even when onboard, temporarily, more power is needed than the solar cells can supply. In the research projec…

The Si-M is officially opened. (from left: Prof. Dr. Joachim Spranger, Dr. Ina Czyborra, Dorothee Bär, Astrid Lurati, Prof. Dr. Sina Bartfeld, Prof. Dr. Fatma Deniz, Prof. Dr. Heyo K. Kroemer, Prof. Dr. Andreas Thiel)

08.05.2026
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Science

Development of innovative medicines and groundbreaking therapies

Festive opening of the Si-M and BeCAT research centers

The Charité – University Medicine Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin opened the research centers "Berlin Center for Advanced Therapies" (BeCAT) and "The Simulated Human" (Si-M) on April 22, 2026. The highly specialized buildings offer scientists excellent conditions for researching and de…

At KIWI Biolab, one of the world's leading laboratories for the development of bioprocesses, a 48-bioreactor system integrated into a laboratory robot is used, enabling the parallel cultivation and automated monitoring of biological processes under controlled conditions.

22.04.2026
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Robot

The research group of Prof. Dr. Peter Neubauer combines robots, analysis devices, and artificial intelligence into effective research teams

A laboratory without people

It sounds a bit like science fiction: a laboratory that can plan, conduct, and evaluate its experiments largely independently. In which computers and artificial intelligence (AI) control robots work together with state-of-the-art analysis devices. And in which no human has to burn the night hours fe…

By the thickness of the bars in the grid, their spacing, and the depth of the grooves, the wavelength of the laser beams can be adjusted. Below the grid, you can see the few Bragg mirrors above the active layer (light gray), where the radiation is generated. Beneath that are many layers of Bragg mirror layers. (Electron microscope image)

$Schematic structure of the new micro laser with the lower layer of Bragg mirror pairs (DBR), the active layer in red, the few layers of Bragg mirror pairs above it (DBR), and the diffraction grating (MHCG).$

13.02.2026
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Electronics (wafers, semiconductors, microchips,...)

Data transmission, autonomous driving, and light-based computers could benefit

New micro laser for application and research

An innovative microlaser concept based on so-called surface emitters (VCSEL) has been developed by the Department of "Optoelectronics and Quantum Devices" at TU Berlin under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Stephan Reitzenstein. The new microlasers are vertically structured laser diodes in which the uppe…

This is what the new physics building will look like in the future.

The TU Physics New Building is the triangular building in the center.

05.01.2026
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New building

Architectural firm Telluride prevails

Physics Building New Construction at TU Berlin

The new physics building with the Center for Integrated Photonics Research (CIPHOR) on the East Campus of the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) will be constructed according to the plans of the architecture firm Telluride. As part of an expert colloquium, the Senate Department for Urban Dev…

The QUICKÂ³ flight pattern in the integration laboratory at the Department of Aerospace Engineering with the development team of the Technical University of Berlin.

The small satellite QUICK³ serves as a technology demonstrator for components of a future quantum satellite system.

Successful launch of the rocket from the Vandenberg Space Center (California, USA)

26.06.2025
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Science

Smallest satellite with TU Berlin system technology tests quantum communication in space

On Monday, June 23, 2025, the microsatellite QUICK³ from the Vandenberg Space Center (California, USA; GMT-7) was successfully launched into Earth's orbit. The mission aims to test new technologies for secure quantum communication and conduct a quantum physics experiment under space conditions. The…

The student preparation team has been in Kiruna for a week: Felix Oesterle, Nima Mirrafati, Felix Schoetzau, Matteo Grube, Arved Dörpinghaus (l.r.) in front of the experiment module and rocket tip.

Experiment module in the body of the rocket

Propellant Management Devices produced by the team using 3D printing

Traditionally, every space mission has its patch, the

12.03.2025
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Science

On March 11, 2025, at 10:15 AM CET, a high-altitude research rocket launched in Sweden

TU experiment started in All

As part of the European program REXUS (Rocket Experiments for University Students), a high-altitude research rocket was launched on March 11, 2025, from the Esrange Space Center near the Swedish town of Kiruna. Included: an experiment from TU Berlin testing innovative, 3D-printed fuel tanks for spac…

The InnoCube team is pleased: The satellite is ready for installation in the deployment container, for the journey to the launch site, and finally into orbit.

The CubeSat during integration into the deployment container. On the front side, the pyramid-shaped laser-ranging reflector of the EPISODE payload can be seen.

The ejector container is being prepared.

14.01.2025
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Science

Technical University of Berlin invites: Launch of the InnoCube satellite on January 14, 2025, in a live stream event

Science in a shoebox

The TU Berlin InnoCube satellite makes spaceflight history: It is the first satellite to perform all its internal data traffic wirelessly via radio. The new technology reduces weight and sources of error and opens up entirely new possibilities for satellite integration and development. On Tuesday, J…

On the roof of the Eugene-Paul-Wigner Physics Building at TU Berlin, you can not only look into space with a telescope. Right next to it, researchers found two micrometeorites in the deposits on the ground. One of them is probably from the edge of the solar system.

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, photographed on November 20, 2014, by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft. Rosetta was only 31 kilometers away from the comet at that time. Especially when it is near the Sun, the comet repeatedly ejects fountains of gas and dust. The dust particles could then land on Earth as micrometeorites.

Micro-meteorite with a metallic bead on the edge. It formed after, during the melting phase in the Earth's atmosphere, the elements nickel and iron separated from the rest. When cooling, these metals then solidified into a separate small ball. From it, one can determine how the micro-meteorite entered the atmosphere, namely with the small ball leading.

Micro-meteorite with a turtle pattern, formed through special crystallization processes in the Earth's atmosphere. It most likely originates from the outer solar system and could have separated from comets passing by Jupiter or from rocky material in the Kuiper Belt — at a distance approximately 40 times the distance from Earth to the Sun.

06.07.2024
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Science

Origin of micrometeorites determined for the first time using complex computer simulations and experiments.

Dust particles from the edge of the solar system on TU roof

Citizen scientists can collect micrometeorites from their rooftops and identify them with some practice using a light microscope. The most experienced among them have now, together with a team of researchers from TU Berlin and the Museum of Natural History in Berlin, as well as other international s…

At KIWI-Biolab: Multiple different sample holders can be loaded with the automatic robotic arm.

The filling of bioreactors with various substances according to a predetermined pattern is carried out fully automatically in the KIWI-Biolab.

28.06.2024
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Universities

Project "BioBlock" receives five million euros for its innovative concept

Creative experimental space for knowledge and data exchange in the biotechnology industry

A consortium of over 25 leading universities, research institutions, and companies receives five million euros through the DATIpilot program for the project "BioBlock". This makes "BioBlock" one of the 20 selected innovation communities out of 500 applications for funding. "The management team, cons…

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