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German Aerospace Center (DLR)

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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.

Mentioned as: German Space Agency DLROrg RelationshipOct 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.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Org RelationshipSep 25, 2020HyImpulse hybrid rocket motor roars to life for the first time

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.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Narrative PlanAug 14, 2020DLR spinoff HyImpulse plans small launcher debut in 2022

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.

Mentioned as: DLR Institute of Space PropulsionOrg RelationshipAug 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.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Narrative GeneralJul 22, 2020Miniature thruster propels single cubesat to lower orbit

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.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Org RelationshipJul 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.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Narrative GeneralJul 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.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Narrative GeneralJul 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.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Org RelationshipJul 15, 2020German launch startups win DLR funds • Comtech wants out of Gilat merger • ClearSpace forming debris removal team

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

Mentioned as: the german space agency dlrTechnical ProductJul 15, 2020German launch startups win DLR funds • Comtech wants out of Gilat merger • ClearSpace forming debris removal team

Polaris Spaceplanes is a DLR spinoff established in 2018.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Narrative GeneralNov 21, 2019Advanced technology, investment clearing way for spaceliners

DLR’s Spaceliner concept could provide uncrewed transportation to low Earth orbit with an additional stage.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Narrative GeneralNov 21, 2019Advanced technology, investment clearing way for spaceliners

DLR’s Spaceliner concept could perform flights to geosynchronous transfer orbit with an additional stage.

Mentioned as: DLRTechnical ProductNov 21, 2019Advanced technology, investment clearing way for spaceliners

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

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Narrative GeneralOct 27, 2019InSight heat flow probe suffers setback

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

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Narrative GeneralOct 24, 2019DLR, Teledyne begin hyperspectral imaging from ISS

The DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) became fully functional after a year of testing and calibration as of 2019-10-24 during the 70th International Astronautical Congress in Washington.

Mentioned as: DLRTechnical ProductOct 24, 2019DLR, Teledyne begin hyperspectral imaging from ISS

Tesat-Spacecom developed the optical terminals for EDRS-C with the German Space Agency DLR.

Mentioned as: German Space Agency DLRTechnical ProductAug 6, 2019Satellites for Intelsat, European lasercomm launch on Arianespace rocket

The German Space Agency DLR’s Earth Observation Center provides RapidEye imagery under the International Space Charter.

Mentioned as: German Space Agency DLROrg RelationshipJun 28, 2019Startup shares disaster imagery, but at what cost?

The German Space Agency’s Earth Observation Center supplies imagery from Planet’s RapidEye constellation to the International Charter.

Mentioned as: german space agencyTechnical ProductJun 28, 2019Satellites to the rescue after natural disasters

The German space agency DLR began a study in March 2025 on a reusable launcher concept that would use a winged first-stage booster captured on descent by an aircraft and towed back to land.

Mentioned as: German Aerospace Center (DLR)Narrative GeneralMar 21, 2019Germany begins reusability study to capture rockets in midair and land them with a plane
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