Aerospace Technology

One of the most important Private Public Partnership (PPP) projects of DLR is the RapidEye project. Within that project the OS team has to develop many space qualified components. A forerunner of RapidEye was the development of a VIS/NIR high resolution airborne camera which used the same CCD line sensor. The result of that development (together with the company LGGM – a joint venture of Leica AG, Helava, and GDE Systems) was the worldwide first commercial airborne digital photogrammetric camera ADS 40. The company LGGM is one of the two leading manufacturers of airborne photogrammetric cameras with many decades of experience in that field. DLR-OS has a profound theoretical background in optoelectronic sensor design resulting in successfully developed spaceborne and airborne CCD sensors (WAOSS, MOS, WAAC).

The following activities show the experience of OS in aerospace technology:

In the Mars96 project the OS team has developed the three-line CCD camera WAOSS (launch failure)
OS contributed to the MOS-IRS project with the development of components for the 19 channel imaging spectrometer (8 years in 880 km orbit without failure)
OS as the leader of the BIRD project developed the satellite bus and the infrared payload
A modified WAOSS camera worked on BIRD for more than two years successfully
OS co-workers contributed to aerospace technology reviewer teams

The know-how of OS in aerospace technology has led to various spin-offs and also to the development of electronic ground support equipment (EGSE).

Projects

Rapid Eye

The micro-satellite BIRD

RapidEye

MOS-IRS Projekt

Instrumentation and Photography