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German Aerospace Center (DLR)

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A separate Ariane 6 upper stage Hot Firing Model (HFM) will be hot-fire tested at the DLR site in Lampoldshausen, Germany.

Mentioned as: DLROrg RelationshipJan 4, 2022The Core + Upper Stage Of The Ariane 6 Now En Route To Launch Site In French Guiana

In 2021 UP42 joined Airbus, the European Space Agency, the European Commission, and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in sponsoring Earth Observation Challenges for the Copernicus Masters.

Mentioned as: DLRTechnical ProductDec 16, 2021UP42 announces Thetaspace as Copernicus Masters Challenge winner with solution to cloud cover in EO Data

Telespazio, part of the joint venture Spaceopal with German space agency DLR that manages Galileo Control Centres, projects a 10-day transfer from launch to the payloads’ final orbit at 23,222 km.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Org RelationshipDec 6, 2021Arianespace expands Galileo constellation to 28 satellites

GMV has been awarded a contract by the German Space Agency at DLR to develop progressive and advanced Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) data processing algorithms for the German Space Situational Awareness Centre (GSSAC) in Uedem, Germany.

Mentioned as: German Space Agency at DLROrg RelationshipNov 3, 2021GMV Wins Contract For State-of-the-art Space Debris Software For German Space Agency

Isar Aerospace won the German Space Agency DLR’s microlauncher competition, beating Rocket Factory Augsburg and HyImpulse Technologies, to secure an 11-million-euro prize.

Mentioned as: German Space Agency DLRTechnical ProductSep 8, 2021Isar Aerospace to launch OroraTech wildfire monitoring cubesat constellation

Orolia's timing solutions support ESA, NASA, Jet Propulsion Labs, SpaceX, Blue Origin, CNES France, NPL UK, DLR Germany, and JAXA.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Narrative GeneralSep 2, 2021Orolia Gains Controlling Interest In T4Science To Bolster Their Precise Time & Frequency Offerings

As of 2021-08-31, the German space agency DLR began accepting applications for institutional payloads to fly aboard a pair of Isar Aerospace Spectrum launches free of charge.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Org RelationshipSep 1, 2021DLR opens applications for free launch services aboard Isar Aerospace demo missions

Walther Pelzer, head of the German space agency DLR, opposes national quick solutions for space traffic management and supports a United Nations-led approach.

Mentioned as: German space agencyOrg RelationshipAug 31, 2021Space agencies support space traffic management but differ on how it should be developed

Airbus partnered with Germany’s DLR and Tesat Spacecom on the Osiris optical terminal project.

Mentioned as: DLROrg RelationshipAug 3, 2021SpaceLink to improve International Space Station comms with relay satellites

Isar Aerospace has won launch contracts from Airbus Defence and Space and from the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Mentioned as: DLRTechnical ProductJul 28, 2021Isar Aerospace raises $75 million

The German space agency DLR will provide the infrared mapper for NASA’s VERITAS spacecraft.

Mentioned as: DLRTechnical ProductJun 10, 2021ESA selects Venus mission

The German Government and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) awarded Isar Aerospace an 11,000,000 EUR contract through the C-STS program managed by the European Space Agency (ESA).

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Org RelationshipMay 7, 2021ISAR Aerospace Collects An 11 Million Euros Contract From The German Aerospace Center + German Government

The competition for the award was initiated and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and was designed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Technical ProductMay 7, 2021ISAR Aerospace Collects An 11 Million Euros Contract From The German Aerospace Center + German Government

DLR selected Isar Aerospace on 2021-04-30 to receive a DLR letter of support required to submit a formal service proposal to ESA for the first 11 million-euro award.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Org RelationshipMay 6, 2021Isar Aerospace wins three-way DLR microlauncher competition

DLR opened its microlauncher competition on 2020-05-15 as a multi-round funding drive aimed at promoting the development of domestic smallsat launchers.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Narrative GeneralMay 6, 2021Isar Aerospace wins three-way DLR microlauncher competition

All three companies that qualified for the DLR competition—Isar Aerospace, Rocket Factory Augsburg, and HyImpulse Technologies—remain eligible to compete for an additional 11,000,000 EUR to be awarded under Boost! in 2022.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Narrative GeneralMay 6, 2021Isar Aerospace wins three-way DLR microlauncher competition

DLR funded the microlauncher competition through 25,000,000 EUR that Germany pledged to ESA’s Boost! program at the Space19+ ministerial council meeting in Seville in November 2019.

Mentioned as: dlrNarrative GeneralMay 6, 2021Isar Aerospace wins three-way DLR microlauncher competition

Isar Aerospace received a DLR endorsement that clears the way for it to secure 11,000,000 EUR from the European Space Agency’s Boost! program.

Mentioned as: dlrNarrative GeneralMay 6, 2021Isar Aerospace wins three-way DLR microlauncher competition

The DLR microlauncher competition will award one startup with 11,000,000 EUR in funding later 2021 to support a qualification flight carrying a payload for a university or research institution for free.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Narrative GeneralApr 27, 2021Germany’s launch startups race to grow their launch manifests

A second prize of 11,000,000 EUR in funding will be awarded in 2022 as the final stage of the DLR microlauncher competition.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Narrative GeneralApr 27, 2021Germany’s launch startups race to grow their launch manifests
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