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Astronautics
Prof. Prof. h.c.
Dr. Dr. h.c.
Ulrich Walter
Contact
Phone +49.89.289.16003
Management
Prof. Prof. h.c. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ulrich Walter,
Director
Dr.-Ing. Martin Rott, Academic Director
Emeriti
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eduard Igenbergs, Emeritus
Adjunct Professors/Lecturers
Dr. rer. nat. Markus Brandstätter (lecturer)
Oberstarzt Dr. Franz Grell (lecturer)
Dr.-Ing. Detlef Koschny, ESA_ESTEC
(lecturer)
Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Letschnik (lecturer)
Hon. Prof. Dr. med. Hans Pongratz
APL-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schmucker
Administrative Staff
Petra Lochner
Technical Staff
Tobias Abstreiter
Research Scientists
and Doctoral Candidates
Dr.-Ing. Jan Harder, DFG Postdoc
Dr. Alexander Hoehn, Assoc. Professor
(adj.), Univ. of Colorado
Dr.-Ing. Claas Olthoff (grad. 06/2017)
Nicolas Appel, M.Sc
Janos Biswás, M.Sc.
Dipl.-Ing. Christian Bühler
Dipl.-Ing. Martin Dziura
Dipl.-Inf. Carolin Eckl (external)
Dipl.-Ing. Hendrik Enke (external)
Laura Grill, M.Sc.
Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Killian
Dipl.-Ing. Martin Langer
Dipl.-Ing. Sabine Letschnik
Maximilian Prexl, M.Sc.
Daniel Pütz, M.Sc.
Sofia Ramirez, M.Sc (external)
Philipp Reiß, M.Sc.
Sebastian Rückerl, M.Sc.
Dipl.-Ing. Jonas Schnaitmann (external)
Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Tebbe
Nicolas Zunhammer, M.Sc.
Research Foci
■■Real-time telerobotics in space
(RACOON) and space communication
technologies (CopKa, CFRMHF,
LISAES, LISAMS+).
■■Satellite Development and
Technologies (MOVE-II, Move-On).
■■Exploration Technologies, with space
life support systems (V HAB, V SUIT)
and lunar in-situ resource exploration
and utilization (ROBEX, PROSPECT,
MARVIN, LUVMI, SKAD, BLTAS).
Competence
■■Systems Engineering tools for
development of complex systems
■■End-to-end satellite communication
■■Dynamic simulation of life support
systems
■■Lunar regolith handling and processing,
resource extraction from lunar regolith
■■Thermal analysis and design for
satellite systems and planetary
exploration environments
Infrastructure
■■Machine and electronics workshops
■■Cleanroom (Class 8)
■■Thermal-vacuum chambers
■■Proximity operations simulator
■■Groundstation (Ka-, S- and UHF/VHF
band communication)
■■Mission control center
■■Hypervelocity accelerators
■■Remotely operated telepresence drone
(DJI Matrice M600 Pro)
Astronautics-related Courses
■■Fundamentals of Spaceflight
■■Space System Design/Technology
■■Spacecraft Technology I/II/GIST
■■Spacecraft Design (summer school)
■■Orbit- and Flight Mechanics
■■Orbit Dynamics and Robotics
■■Human Spaceflight
■■Aerospace Medicine
■■Systems Engineering
■■Advanced Systems Engineering
■■Stars and Cosmology
■■Spaceflight Environment and
Simulation
■■Near Earth Objects
■■Applied Systems Engineering Lab
■■Hypervelocity Technologies Lab
■■Spaceflight Technologies Lab
■■Systems Engineering Lab
■■Spaceflight Thermal Design Lab
Selected Publications 2017
In addition to the following peer-reviewed
journal and conference publications, more
than 74 academic theses were completed
in 2017 (54 bachelor/semester theses, 20
master theses and one Ph.D. thesis).
■■M. Langer, F. Schummer, N. Appel,
T. Gruebler, K. Janzer, J. Kiesbye,
L. Krempel, A. Lill, D. Messmann,
S. Rueckerl, M. Weisgerber (2017):
‘MOVE-II – The Munich Orbital Verifi-cation Experiment II’, IAA-AAS-CU-
17-06-05, Proceedings of the 4th IAA
Conference on University Satellite
Missions & CubeSat Workshop, Rome,
Italy, December 2017
■■C.T. Olthoff: ‘Validation of the Virtual
Spacesuit using Apollo 15 Data’,
47th International Conference on
Environmental Systems, 16-20 July
2017, Charleston, South Carolina
■■Reiss, P. et al.: ‘Implications of sample
size for the thermal extraction of
volatiles from lunar regolith with the
PROSPECT instrument package’,
Journal of Aerospace Engineering,
30(3), p. 4016088. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)
AS.1943-5525.0000688, 2017
■■Harder, J., Dziura, M., Haberl, S.:
‘Future Technologies for Operating
Robots in Space’, Proceedings of the
68th International Astronautical Con­
gress, Adelaide, Australia, September
2017
■■Guerster, M., Walter, U.: ‘Aerodynamics
of a highly irregularbody at transonic
speeds – Analysis of STRATOS flight
data’, PloS ONE 12(12): e0187798. doi.
org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187798,
2017