Aerospace agency

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AustriaAustria  Aerospace Agency (ALR)
Aeronautics and Space Agency (ASA)p1
State level Federal level
legal form Division of the Austrian Research  Promotion Agency (FFG)
At sight Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology
founding 2005 (1972 as Österreichische Raumfahrtagentur / Austrian Space Agency  ASA)
Headquarters Vienna 9 , Sensengasse 1
management Andreas Geisler (Head)
Peter Jankowitsch (Chairman of the Advisory Board)
Website www.ffg.at → ALR

The Agency for Aerospace (ALR), English Aeronautics and Space Agency  (ASA) in Vienna is an organization with the aim of the Austrian Space Research to coordinate related to activities and programs nationally and internationally.

history

1972 was Austrian Space Agency , Austrian Space Agency  (ASA) was founded. 1977–1987 it was called the Austrian Solar and Space Agency  (ASSA) in order - also under the influence of the oil shock of the 70s - in preparation for joining the European Space Agency  (ESA) to promote space technology as well as space-oriented solar technology at the time . In 1987 Austria became a member state of the ESA, the organization was renamed ASA, and solar and wind technology research was  affiliated to the Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf (ARCS).

Important projects of the ASA were the flight of the first Austrian astronaut Franz Viehböck to the Mir space station in 1991, and the collaboration on SPACELAB-1 , the international space station ISS and the GALILEO project.

In 2005, the Austrian Space Agency was in the Agency for Aerospace transferred (the English name Aeronautics and Space Agency is maintaining the established abbreviation ASA). It was incorporated into the research infrastructure organization of the Austrian Research  Promotion Agency (FFG), founded in September 2004 , and is subordinate to the Ministry of Science . The operational side of research and development is  embedded in the Austrian Space Applications Program (ASAP), started in 2002, and numerous university and non-university special projects. Since then, the agency has served the international and “Austria’s economy and science as a docking station for the international aerospace scene and a central point of contact for the coordination of all aerospace-related activities”. At the same time, an advisory board for aerospace was placed at her side, which "supports the management of the FFG as well as the management of the agency itself, especially in developing strategies in the aerospace industry."

Head of the Aerospace Agency (2012) was Harald Posch (* 1955; † 2015), Chairman of the Advisory Board (since its foundation) Peter Jankowitsch . In July 2015, Andreas Geisler was appointed head of the agency as the successor to Harald Posch, who died in May 2015.

In 2011, the ALR budget was € 64.52 million, with € 54 million contributing to the ESA (€ 16 million mandatory, € 38 million voluntary for additional programs).

In 2016, the expenditure amounted to around € 65 million. Around € 48 million of this is for contributions to the ESA (€ 18 million for the ESA compulsory program and around € 30 million for elective programs).

tasks

The functions are:

There is also close contact with the two international bodies based in Vienna, the European Institute for Space  Policy (ESPI) and the United Nations Office for Space  Affairs (UNOOSA).

See also

literature

  • Bruno Philipp Besser, European Space Agency / Agence spatial européenne Austria's History in Space. HSR-34, ESA Publications Division, January 2004, ISSN  1638-4704 , ISBN 92-9092-545-0 ( pdf , ffg.at; online abstracts see the web links: Austria in Space )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Your contacts at the Aerospace Agency , ffg.at
  2. ↑ a b The Advisory Board of the Aerospace Agency , ffg.at
  3. ^ A b Anna Till: Austria's History and Future in Space - Austria goes Space . GRG 23 / VBS, 2006
  4. ↑ a b Austrian Space Applications Program , ffg.at
  5. ↑ a b New website for the Aerospace Agency (ALR), formerly Austrian Space Agency , esa.int, June 24, 2005 (literal quote)
  6. ↑ June 30, 2005, a new advisory board of the FFG agency for aerospace started its work as part of a first constituent meeting. . Press release APA 20050630 OTS0272 (literal quote)
  7. ↑ Harald Posch, 1955-2015 . APA notification dated May 22, 2015, accessed May 22, 2015.
  8. ↑ 2008 also chairman of the Industrial Policy Committee (IPC) in the European Space Agency (ESA). Harald Posch takes on important ESA positions , derstandard.at, March 31, 2008;
    Harald Posch, head of the aerospace agency , photo on spaceinimages.esa.int
  9. ↑ derStandard.at: Andreas Geisler becomes head of the aerospace agency: successor to the late Harald Posch . Article dated July 1, 2015, accessed May 3, 2018.
  10. ↑ Aeronautics and Space Agency (Austria) , entry in Jane's Space Systems and Industry , Section Civil space organizations - National agencies , Jul 27, 2012
  11. ↑ Austria's participation in ESA programs. Retrieved April 15, 2016 .
  12. ↑ cf. Marcel Dickow: The space policy of the EU. Civilian flagships and options for the CSDP. In: SWP Studies 2011, October 2011, p. 26 ff ( review , swp-berlin.org)
  13. ↑ in Graz, founded in 1970, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Institute for Space Research

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