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German Aerospace Center

Germany · Government · EST. 1969

German Aerospace Center is a government launch operator based in Germany, founded in 1969. It has flown 1 launches under its own name. 1 succeeded and 0 failed, a success rate of 100.0%. It has nothing on the schedule we can see right now.

SourceLAUNCH LIBRARY 2
Window reaches2039-12-31 00:00:00Z
Page generated2026-11-11 11:12:10Z

Flight record

Launch statistics

ON RECORD
Total launches1
Successful1
Failed0
Success rate100.0%
Consecutive successes1
Scheduled0
AdministratorAnke Kaysser-Pyzalla
Founded1969

These are launches under DLR’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library. They don’t count missions or payloads. A spacecraft that flew on someone else’s rocket counts for the operator that flew it.

Operator or customer

An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and the launch schedule filters by operator. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Some organisations are both. Below, DLR is counted in whichever role the current schedule gives it.

Manifest role

NONE FILED
Flying as operator0
Named as customer0
Window reaches2039-12-31 00:00:00Z
Scheduled (register total)0

No scheduled flight names DLR with someone else flying it.

How we count it: a scheduled launch counts as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation is in the launch name, mission name or programme, and someone else is flying it. We don’t search mission descriptions, and we only see the schedule as far as it goes, which is 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. So treat both counts as a minimum.

About DLR

The German Aerospace Center is Germany's Center for aerospace, energy, and transportation research. Their main work is as a contributor to the ESA. They have done work both in tandem with the US on Space Shuttle and the ISS, and also with other European Nations on missions like Space Lab and Mars Express.

Upcoming launches

Manifest

EMPTY

DLR has nothing on the schedule we can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. Its missions show up here once a launch date is published.

All upcoming launches

The label on each flight says how exact its launch time is. If the date is only known to the month, you’ll see the month and no countdown. A weather go-probability only shows when Launch Library has one for that flight. EveryLaunch doesn’t work it out.

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

Logos of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are displayed prominently on the tail of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) 747SP
Logos of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are displayed prominently on the tail of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) 747SPNASA / AFRC · public domainNASA ↗
70th International Astronautical Congress
70th International Astronautical CongressNASA / HQ · public domainNASA ↗
70th International Astronautical Congress
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Common questions

How many launches has German Aerospace Center flown?
German Aerospace Center has flown 1 launches under its own name. 1 succeeded and 0 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
What is German Aerospace Center's success rate?
100.0%. That's 1 successful flights out of 1 attempts. Its last 1 launches in a row have succeeded.
When is German Aerospace Center's next launch?
German Aerospace Center has nothing on the schedule EveryLaunch can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z.
Does German Aerospace Center fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
German Aerospace Center has flown 1 launches under its own name. It isn't the operator on any scheduled flight we can see. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule only lists operators, so a well-known agency can own a mission and still not show up there.
Where is German Aerospace Center based?
Germany. Launch Library lists it as a government operator, founded in 1969.