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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    and commercially launched geostationary communications satellite. 1975 – OTRAG, the first company to attempt private development and manufacture of space...
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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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    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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