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Hermann Julius Oberth (German: [ˈhɛrman ˈjuːli̯ʊs ˈoːbɛrt]; 25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian -born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. [3] Oberth supported Nazi Germany 's war effort and received the War Merit Cross (1st Class) in 1943.
25 June 1894 in Sibiu, Romania. 28 December 1989 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. 1967 [a] "for contributions to astronautics and rocketry, and discovering the effect for fuel-saving maneuvers in interplanetary space flights (Oberth effect)." [8] Ferdinand Cap [de] (1924–2016) Austria.
In autumn 1929, Oberth launched his first liquid fuel rocket, named Kegeldüse. He was helped in this experiment by his students at the Technical University of Berlin , one of whom was Wernher von Braun , who would later head the wartime project to develop the rocket officially called the A4 , but far better known today as the V-2 .
The Hermann Oberth Space Travel Museum (Hermann-Oberth-Raumfahrt-Museum, or Hermann-Oberth-Museum for short) is a museum of space technology in the Franconian city of Feucht in Bavaria, Germany. It commemorates the life work of the famous visionary and rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth. Exhibits include a Kumulus rocket and a Cirrus rocket, which ...
The Thirtieth of September Movement (Indonesian: Gerakan 30 September, also known as G30S, and by the syllabic abbreviation Gestapu for Gerakan September Tiga Puluh, Thirtieth of September Movement, also unofficially called Gestok, for Gerakan Satu Oktober, or First of October Movement) was a self-proclaimed organization of Indonesian National ...
Another serious explosion at 12:29 PM on August 28, 1944, killed 27 people and caused significant damage to the facility. Among the 27 casualties was Ilse Oberth (1924–1944), the youngest daughter of rocket pioneer Hermann Julius Oberth. Ilse Oberth worked at the facility as a rocket technician and had arrived four months earlier on April 28 ...
Oberth effect. Not to be confused with Gravity assist. In astronautics, a powered flyby, or Oberth maneuver, is a maneuver in which a spacecraft falls into a gravitational well and then uses its engines to further accelerate as it is falling, thereby achieving additional speed. [ 1 ] The resulting maneuver is a more efficient way to gain ...
The Hermann Oberth Gesellschaft (1952-1993) [3] was an association named after Hermann Oberth, [4] the German astronautics pioneer and the authoritative expert on rocketry outside the United States, [5] which develops and builds rockets and trains engineers in space technology. The association was founded on the initiative of the german rocket ...