OTRAG (German: Orbital Transport-und Raketen-Aktiengesellschaft, or Orbital Transport and Rockets, Inc.), was a West German company based in Stuttgart...
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The OTRAG rocket was a modular satellite-delivery rocket developed by the OTRAG company in the 1970s and 80s. The OTRAG rocket was to become a rocket...
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Raketen AktienGesellschaft, or Orbital Forwarding Company in English ("OTRAG"). It is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1976 Luvua Airport...
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Zaire. In a 1978 agreement with OTRAG, Mobutu gave the company a 25-year rented plot of land in Zaire. The first rocket, OTRAG-1, was launched on May 18, 1977...
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engineer, who founded the world's first commercial space launch company, OTRAG. Lutz Kayser, is the uncle of German serial entrepreneur Lin Kayser, who...
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on November 10, 2017. Retrieved October 18, 2008. Leitenburger, Bernd. "OTRAG Rocket". Retrieved December 20, 2022. Karisch, Karl-Heinz (July 15, 2009)...
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The OTRAG group launched test vehicles using more common blends. In at least one instance, a rocket was propelled by diesel fuel. However, no OTRAG rocket...
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In 1976, he became a scientific consultant to Lutz Kayser, the CEO of OTRAG, and a member of the Daimler-Benz board of directors. However, his deteriorating...
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vehicle to include modular rockets similar to OTRAG technology. Lutz Kayser, the founding engineer of OTRAG, visited Armadillo in May 2006 and loaned Carmack...
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site of OTRAG rockets, after launching was no longer possible in Shaba North in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo). On 1 March 1981, an OTRAG rocket...
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company OTRAG in the 20th century. Founded in 1975 as the first private company to attempt to launch a private spacecraft, testing of its OTRAG rocket...
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Republic of the Congo. Built and used by the Orbital Transport und Raketen AG (OTRAG) until 1979 with the blessing and support of Mobutu then President of Zaïre...
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considered desirable. Other vehicles or companies using pressure-fed engine: OTRAG (rocket) Quad (rocket) of Armadillo Aerospace XCOR EZ-Rocket of XCOR Aerospace...
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terminate OmegA rocket program". SpaceNews. 2020-09-09. Retrieved 2021-08-17. "OTRAG". space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 11 August 2017. "South Korean rocket startup...
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1970-1971 Diamant BP4 – Retired 1972-1975 Zéphyr (Latitude) – Under Development OTRAG – Retired Spectrum (Isar Aerospace) – Under Development RFA One (Rocket...
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early 1980s in West Germany with the Democratic Republic of the Congo-based OTRAG rocket. This is somewhat similar to the approach some previous systems have...
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Tonneo OTRAG Launch Center 7°55′33″S 28°31′40″E / 7.92587°S 28.52766°E / -7.92587; 28.52766 (Kapani Tonneo) 1975–1979 3 <50 km German OTRAG rockets...
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projects. Also, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the private German company OTRAG tried to develop low-cost commercial space launchers. Only the sub-orbital...
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Aviation Riddle Airlines Universal Airlines Zantop Air Transport Zaire Otrag Range Air Service New Zealand ZK-SAE Merchant Enterprise – 222 on static...
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impractical. Pressure-fed engine (rocket) Beal Aerospace Sea Dragon (rocket) OTRAG (rocket) a BDB with massively parallel boosters Schnitt, Arthur (1998) Minimum...
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1957), neuropsychologist Lutz Kayser, German aerospace engineer, founded OTRAG Lutz Kleveman (born 1974), German author, journalist and photographer Lutz...
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the Moon. Private spaceflight Orbital spaceflight Sub-orbital spaceflight OTRAG, which used a similar modular rocket design Mojave Air and Space Port Team...
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and commercially launched geostationary communications satellite. 1975 – OTRAG, the first company to attempt private development and manufacture of space...
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manufacturer OTRAG, founded in 1974, made its second, and last, successful launch from the African nation of Zaire in three attempts. None of the OTRAG rockets...
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Popescu describes as being inspired by the now-defunct German launch company OTRAG. The vehicle will be thirty meters in diameter, and, like the EcoRocket...
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missiles led to the West German government closing down OTRAG facilities, after which OTRAG would move its operations to Libya and finally close entirely...
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(227 km) 13 May 1983 Skylark 7 (GER) TEXUS 8 S (264 km) 19 September 1983 OTRAG 1-3-B (GER) OTR-1 VF 31 January 1984 Nike-Orion (SWE) S39 SOAP/WINE 1 (149 km)...
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original on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2015. Brügge, Norbert. "OTRAG LV". Space Launch Vehicles of the World. Archived from the original on 24...
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had lifted the ban on travel to Cuba in March. The West German company OTRAG (Orbital Transport-und Raketen-Aktiengesellschaft), founded by German engineer...
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Sun-synchronous Optical imaging 20 June Successful 1 March 09:20 OTRAG Seba Oasis OTRAG OTRAG Suborbital Test flight 1 March Successful Apogee: 150 kilometres...
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