OTRAG Rocket.pdf

Thrust during lifting 3.00 tonnes
Burn after 32.00 sec
Burn out at 3.00 mach
Total flight time 3.00 min
Impact after 50 - 70 km
After an internal dispute Lutz Kayser left OTRAG 1982. On 10/04/1982 reported
Aviation Week & technology that is now trying OTRAG under the sole direction of
Frank Wukasch her troubled relationship with the German government to clean up and is
now focused on the development of sounding rockets as an intermediate for the orbital
version. A single module can bring in 50 200 kg or 30 kg km altitude in 90 km altitude. A
two-stage version with 6 modules and a first module, the second stage is 500 kg in 280
km height or 50 kg bring in 655 km altitude. Wukasch acted smarter than Kayser. As
mentioned, the Soviet propaganda made against the company and even some U.S. media
participated in it (In March 1978, Ted Szulc-shifting in the men's magazine "Penthouse",
which was developing a OTRAG "V3" from other African countries). Of course this led
to reactions from the German government. Kayser reported each wanted to know (or not)
as he was being followed by the German government, rather than the posts directly to
write to find a solution beyond the public). Frank Wukasch knew that a confrontation was
futile for such a small company and changed the company policy - First of all
cooperation with Germany by the OTRAG offered as a sounding rocket - so do not
compete with Ariane. The following options were provided:
1-6-P 3-9-9-P 4-P 3-6-P 2 4-6-6-9-P2 P2
Module level 1 1 3 4 3 4 6
Module Level 2 - - - 1 1 1
Total length 9.4 m 14.1 m 14.1 m 4.4 m 15.1 m 14.4 M
Diameter 0:27 m 0.58 m 0.64 m 00:58 / 0.27 m 0.64 / 0.27 0.98 m / 0.27 m
Payload length 1.4 m 3.1 m 3.1 m 1.4 m 1.4 m 4.0 m
like cylindrical 0.5 m 1.1 m 1.1 m 0.5 m 0.5 m 1.5 m
this peak 0.9 m 2.0 m 2.0 m 0.9 m 0.9 m 0.9 m
Diameter 0.64 m 0.64 m Payload 00:27 m 00:27 m 12:27 m 0.98 m
Maximum payload weight: 200 kg 250 kg 300 kg 250 kg 350 kg 500 kg
No text but it was too late for a turnaround. The program then trickled out slowly, mainly
because there were problems within Germany. The tax authorities and the Federal
Financial Court said the OTRAG from the profit. Thus, the OTRAG had become less
attractive for investors, for now fell off the write-offs, had alienated If the move to Libya
to investors not previously, the OTRAG was now in any case not more new money. The
technical development was halted.
There was still a start, led by Frank Wukasch at ESA in Kiruna (Norway) in 1983. This
was successful, and started experiments and the RWTH University of Munich. However,
the parachute opened and so was not the instrument capsule lost. Kayser's company was
liquidated in 1986 by the shareholders.
Until then, the carrier rocket development swallowed up 150 million marks, of which