association was founded on the initiative of the german rocket pioneer Karl Poggensee (1909-1980) on September 21, 1952 by eleven rocket specialists as the...
7 KB (835 words) - 19:18, 5 February 2024
Hespenbusch is a farm, which belongs to the municipality of Grossenkneten. Karl Poggensee and the Hermann Oberth society (succeeded by the DAFRA, German work...
860 bytes (118 words) - 04:09, 6 August 2024
into Großenkneten, giving it its current extent. Between 1952 and 1957 Karl Poggensee and his association DAFRA (the precursor of the Hermann Oberth Society)...
3 KB (308 words) - 18:15, 9 July 2024
Sahlenburg, where some remnants still exist today. In 1952 in Hespenbusch, Karl Poggensee began to develop and launch small solid-propellant rockets. In the same...
9 KB (1,296 words) - 14:23, 27 August 2024
climbed to 3 metres (Ordway & Sharpe, p18). NOTE: On 13 March 1931, Karl Poggensee launched a solid fuel rocket near Berlin to 1,500 ft altitude. NOTE:...
4 KB (404 words) - 06:25, 8 March 2024
height of 1,000 metres. On 13 March 1931, Tiling and his co-worker, Karl Poggensee, succeeded in the launch of a solid-propellant rocket. The rocket flew...
4 KB (446 words) - 19:36, 5 April 2024