We used the rankings from Emporis , a real estate information company based in Darmstadt, Germany.

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He watched the launch from Darmstadt, and was thrilled to see the mission finally get into space.

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The European Space Operations Centre (Esoc) in Darmstadt, Germany, reports that the contact was made at 2025 GMT on Tuesday.

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Colpan, a chemical engineer of Tatar origin, wrote his doctoral thesis on DNA cleansing at the Darmstadt Institute of Technology in 1983.

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Element 110 is now Darmstadtium (Ds), which was named for the city Darmstadt, Germany, located near the lab where it was discovered.

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He began his career in management with Darmstadt 98 in 2003, moving on to Greuther Furth before joining Hamburg from Bayer Leverkusen.

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And the Darmstadt meeting was presented with an array of concepts that included the use of nets, harpoons, tentacles, ion thrusters and lasers.

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Researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt disagree and have developed algorithms proving that robot arms just need practice, practice, practice to learn complex activities.

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The European Space Agency Spacecraft Operations Centre (Esoc) in Darmstadt, Germany, is now involved in trying to establish a link, using its antennas in French Guiana, the Canary Islands and on the Spanish mainland.

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"We're certainly not at 90% compliance with the 25-year rule yet, and we see explosion events on average about three times a year, " explained Dr Hugh Lewis, who detailed the research findings at the 6th European Conference on Space Debris in Darmstadt, Germany, on Monday.

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