Space Science Project Funding by the

German Space Agency(German Aerospace Center, DLR)

Werner Klinkmann, DLR Space Agency, Bonn

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The Space Agency

Defining German space planning on behalf of the federal government

Representing German space-related interests in the international arena, in particular vis-à-vis the ESA

Tendering, award and support of space projects in the context of the National Space Program

Space Science - Subjects

Exploration of the Solar Systemsun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, interplanetary medium, ...

Astronomy, Astrophysics, Astroparticlephysicsobservation in all spectral ranges, gravitational waves, cosmic particles, ...

Fundamental Physicstest of fundamental laws, relativity (equivalence principle), ...

The German Space Science Programme

1. Participation in the ESA Programme

2. National (bi- und multilateral Projects)

3. Basic Programme

Budget (National Programme, ESA Programme)

1. Participation in the ESA Programme

The ESA Space Science programme is (the only) Mandatory Programme, other Programmes are Optional!Financial contributions according to Gross National Product: ca. 22% from GermanyESA ist responsible for Satellite Bus, Launch, Mission, etc.The National Agencies are responsible for Provision and Funding of the Scientific InstrumentsDLR delegates are German Representatives in ESA Decision Boards (SPC, ...)

Agencies

SSACSpace Science

Advisory Committee

AWGAstronomy

Working Group

FPACFundamental Physics Advisory Committee

DLRSpace Science

SPCScience Programme

Committee

ProgrammausschussExtraterrestrik

German Delegations

SSWGSolar System

Working Group

Advice by Science Community

Other involved ESA Boards:IPC (Industrial Policy Com.)IRC (Intern. Relations Com.)

AFC (Admin. and Financ. Com.)

DLROther Departments

Decision Process in the ESA Space Science Programme

The ESA Space Science Programme in a nutshella) Missions in Operation

Rosetta [2004] Mission to comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko

SMART-1 [2003] Technology Mission to the moon

Mars Express [2003] Mars Exploration

INTEGRAL [2002] INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory

Cluster [2000] Magnetospheric mission

XMM-Newton [1999] X-ray Multi-Mirror Satellite

Cassini-Huygens [1997] Mission to Saturn / Landing on Titan

SOHO [1995] SOlar Heliospheric Observatory

Hubble [1990] Space Observatory

Ulysses [1990] Solar Mission around the Poles

Venus Express [2005] Venus Orbiter

The ESA Space Science Programme in a nutshellb) Projects in Development

Herschel [2008] FIR - Space Observatory

Planck [2008] Analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background

LISA-Pathfinder [2009] Technological Preparations for LISA

JWST [2013] James Webb Space Telescope, IR-Observatory

BepiColombo [2013] Mercury Orbiter

Gaia [2011] Global Astrometry

LISA [2018] Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, Detection ofgravitational waves

The ESA Space Science Programme in a nutshellc) Projects in Selection

Selection within Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Programme starts this year.

Candidates:

Solar Orbiter Observation of the Sun

XEUS X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy,

Darwin Mid-IR-Interferometer for Imaging of extrasolarplanets

... (in total about 60 proposals)

2. National (bi- and multilateral Projects)

Jointly Missions with other Agencies e. g. NASA(SOFIA, Chandra), Roskosmos (eROSITA), CNES (Corot, Microscope)Agreement with Agencies („Memorandum of Understanding“, „Letter of Intent“, „Letter Agreement“)

3. Basic Programme

Technological StudiesVerbundforschung Astronomy/Astrophysics:funding of the scientific data evaluation from selected space observatories (which have a significant German contribution)- HST- XMM- Integral- HerschelIntroduced 1989 together with Verbundforschung for Earth-borne Observations

Implementation of the Space Science Programme

Decision on new Projects within political boundary conditions,in coordination with scientific community (Programm-Ausschuss), evaluation of proposals by advisory board

Awarding grants to scientific institutes and contracts to industryMonitoring of the ProjectsEvaluation by Reviews