Lutz Kayser Explained

Lutz Tilo Ferdinand Kayser (31 March 1939 in Stuttgart, Germany, † [1] was a German aerospace engineer, who founded the world's first commercial space launch company,[2] OTRAG.

Lutz Kayser, is the uncle of German serial entrepreneur Lin Kayser, who sits on the advisory board of the Munich space launcher company Isar Aerospace,[3] and who also works on liquid rocket engines[4] with his company LEAP 71. His father, the chemist Ludwig Kayser, was the director of the German sugar-producing corporation Suedzucker AG.[5] His brother Manfred Kayser, was managing director of the Dornier factory in Lindau, Germany.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kayser . Lin . 2017-11-19 . R.I.P. Lutz Kayser – German rocket pioneer . 2023-02-27 . Josefine Lissner and Lin Kayser . en-US.
  2. Web site: 2012-05-29 . SpaceX Was Not The First Private Rocket Company . 2023-02-27 . Jalopnik . en.
  3. Web site: 2020-12-05 . Der erste Elon Musk: Die unglaubliche Geschichte der deutschen Raketenfirma OTRAG . 2023-03-17 . 1E9 . de.
  4. Web site: Davies . Sam . 2024-07-02 . Exclusive: Behind the scenes at world first hot fire test of computationally engineered rocket engine . 2024-07-14 . TCT Magazine . en-gb.
  5. Web site: Ludwig Kayser – RegioWiki Niederbayern . 2023-03-18 . www.niederbayern-wiki.de.
  6. News: 1978-08-13 . "Dann wäre Deutschland führend in der Welt" . de . Der Spiegel . 2023-03-18 . 2195-1349.