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German Aerospace Center (DLR)

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Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is Germany's national research center for aerospace, energy, and transportation. Acting as the German space agency, DLR is responsible for planning and implementing the German space program on behalf of the federal government. DLR's activities include a wide range of space research, development of space technologies, and operation of research facilities, and it partners with organizations like ESA and various German federal ministries. Key areas of focus include Earth observation, planetary research, human spaceflight, and the development of reusable launch systems.

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The next round of the German micro-launcher competition will award a launch contract worth €11,000,000 for institutional payloads to be selected by DLR and ESA.

RelationshipsFinancialPlanValue 4.6Mar 31, 2021OHB Sweden AB Signs Rocket Factory Augsburg AG To A Dedicated Launch Contract

Rocket Factory Augsburg won the first round of the German micro-launcher competition run by the German Space Agency DLR and received a letter of support to obtain €500,000 of funding within ESA’s Boost! program.

FinancialRelationshipsGovernancePlanLegalValue 4.4Mar 31, 2021OHB Sweden AB Signs Rocket Factory Augsburg AG To A Dedicated Launch Contract

The Galileo Competence Center of the German Aerospace Center (DLR-GK) and Airbus signed a €16.8 million contract for hosting DLR’s COMPASSO mission on the ISS Bartolomeo platform.

RelationshipsFinancialPlanValue 4.6Feb 22, 2021DLR to use Airbus Bartolomeo service for first-ever in-orbit verification of laser-optical clocks

Exolaunch provided deployment, mission management, and integration services on Transporter-1 for the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Dresden Technical University, ICEYE, NanoAvionics, and other commercial companies.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Jan 24, 2021Exolaunch Zeitgeist Mission Takes Off With 30 Smallsats Aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-1 Mission

The German space agency DLR is running a competition that will offer up to 25,000,000 EUR to selected companies.

LegalFinancialGeneralValue 2.7Dec 10, 2020Isar Aerospace, Orbex raise funding for small launch vehicles

The German Aerospace Center DLR built the MASCOT lander that touched down on Ryugu in October 2018.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.6Dec 5, 2020Hayabusa2 delivers asteroid samples to Earth after six-year voyage

DLR signed the contract for the Destiny+ mission with JAXA on 2020-11-11 during an online joint strategy dialogue meeting.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.3Nov 20, 2020Germany joins JAXA’s low-cost deep space test mission

CloudFerro received the First Economic Award from the Polish-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AHK Poland) for implementing the CODE-DE platform in a cloud environment commissioned by the German Space Agency DLR.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 4.0Oct 16, 2020CloudFerro awarded the first Polish-German Economic Award for the CODE-DE project

CloudFerro won the DLR tender for the CODE-DE project in 2019.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Oct 16, 2020CloudFerro awarded the first Polish-German Economic Award for the CODE-DE project

HyImpulse successfully tested its 16,800-pounds-force hybrid rocket motor on 2020-09-15 at the German space agency DLR’s Lampoldshausen facility.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.0Sep 25, 2020HyImpulse hybrid rocket motor roars to life for the first time

The HyImpulse founding team further developed hybrid propulsion and turbopump technology at the DLR Institute of Space Propulsion before leaving the agency in 2018 to form HyImpulse.

CapabilityGrowthValue 3.8Aug 14, 2020DLR spinoff HyImpulse plans small launcher debut in 2022

HyImpulse is a startup formed by rocket engineers from the German space agency DLR targeting late 2022 for the first flight of a small launch vehicle designed around hybrid engines.

PlanCapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Aug 14, 2020DLR spinoff HyImpulse plans small launcher debut in 2022

The UWE-4 program is funded by the German space agency DLR and is focused on developing technologies for formation flight of cubesats.

CapabilityGeneralPlanValue 4.0Jul 22, 2020Miniature thruster propels single cubesat to lower orbit

HyImpulse Technologies received a 500,000-euro award from the German space agency DLR as part of a competition to foster small launch vehicles.

FinancialPlanValue 4.0Jul 15, 2020German launch startups win DLR funds • Comtech wants out of Gilat merger • ClearSpace forming debris removal team

Rocket Factory Augsburg, an OHB company, received a 500,000-euro award from the German space agency DLR as part of a competition to foster small launch vehicles.

RelationshipsFinancialPlanValue 4.4Jul 15, 2020German launch startups win DLR funds • Comtech wants out of Gilat merger • ClearSpace forming debris removal team

Isar Aerospace, HyImpulse Technologies, and Rocket Factory Augsburg will use the DLR funds to further develop their launch vehicles ahead of a follow-on competition in spring 2021.

PlanFinancialValue 3.8Jul 15, 2020German launch startups win DLR funds • Comtech wants out of Gilat merger • ClearSpace forming debris removal team

Isar Aerospace received a 500,000-euro award from the German space agency DLR as part of a competition to foster small launch vehicles.

RelationshipsFinancialValue 4.0Jul 15, 2020German launch startups win DLR funds • Comtech wants out of Gilat merger • ClearSpace forming debris removal team

The German space agency DLR, the European Space Agency, and Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy are supporting a microlauncher competition that aims to provide 25,000,000 EUR to German startups developing vehicles for commercial launch services.

FinancialGeneralLegalValue 4.0Jul 15, 2020German launch startups win DLR funds • Comtech wants out of Gilat merger • ClearSpace forming debris removal team

Tilman Spohn is the principal investigator for the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package instrument at the German space agency DLR.

GovernanceValue 3.0Oct 27, 2019InSight heat flow probe suffers setback

DLR and Teledyne jointly funded the DESIS hosted payload as a public-private partnership.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 3.6Oct 24, 2019DLR, Teledyne begin hyperspectral imaging from ISS
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