German Aerospace Center

German Aerospace Center
*Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.*

Established	1969
Headquarters	Bonn-Oberkassel
Administrator	Johann-Dietrich Wörner
Budget	$1.242 bn
Website	www.dlr.de

The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) (German: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.) is the national research center for aviation and space flight of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Space Agency. DLR is a member in the Helmholtz Association.

Its extensive research and development projects are included in national and international cooperative programs. In addition to its research projects, the DLR is the assigned space agency of Germany bestowing headquarters of German space flight activities and its associates. DLR administers the space budget of the German government, which totals some €846 million ($1.242 billion).

1 Locations
2 Branch offices
3 Board of directors
4 History
5 Projects
6 External links

Locations

The DLR is present in Germany at nine locations:

Berlin-Adlershof
- Institute for Planetary Research
- Institute for Transport Research
Bonn-Oberkassel
- Raumfahrtagentur (space agency)
- International Office
Braunschweig
Bremen
- Institute of Space Systems
Göttingen
Cologne-Porz
- Board of directors
- Engine research
Lampoldshausen
Oberpfaffenhofen
- Space travel control center (GSOC)
- Applied Remote Sensing Cluster
- German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD)
- Microwaves and Radar Institute
- Institute of Communications and Navigation
- Institute of Atmospheric Physics
- Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics
- Space Operations and Astronaut Training
Stuttgart
- Energy research
- Transport
- Aerial and spacial research

Branch offices

There are further branch offices of the DLR in:

There are currently about 5,100 people employed at the DLR. It maintains 28 facilities for ground testing and ground control. The DLR also has foreign offices near its space flight partners in Brussels, Paris, and Washington, D.C..

Board of directors

The board of directors are composed of:

Prof. Dr. Johann-Dietrich Wörner (President) since March 2007
Klaus Hamacher (Vicepres.) since April 2006
Thomas Reiter (Space) since October 2007
Prof. Dr. Joachim Szodruch (Aeronautics and Energy) since 2002
Dr. Ludwig Baumgarten (Space agency and project bearer of the DLR) since April 2002

History

The DLR was formed in 1969 under the name of German Test and Research Institute for Aviation and Space Flight (DFVLR) (German: Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt) through the merger of three former facilities. These were the Aerodynamics Laboratory (AVA) (German: Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt), the German Laboratory for Aviation (DVL) (German: Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt) and the German Research Institute for Aviation (DFL) (German: Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luftfahrt).

In 1989, the DFVLR was renamed to DLR which stood for German Research Institute for Aviation and Space Flight (German: Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt).

After the merger with the German Agency for Space Flight Affairs (DARA) (in German: Deutschen Agentur für Raumfahrtangelegenheiten) in 1997 the name was changed to its current name of DLR which literally translates to German Center for Aviation and Space Flight (German: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) using the shorter translation of German Aerospace Center in English publications.