Editing OTRAG (section)

{{short description|West German rocket company}}
{{merge from|OTRAG (rocket)|date=February 2025}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = OTRAG
| logo = OTRAG_Logo_Colour.svg
| type = 
| industry = Alternative propulsion system for rockets
| fate = Nationalized by [[Libya]]
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| founded = {{start date|1974}} in [[Neu-Isenburg]], [[West Germany]]
| founder = Lutz Kayser
| defunct = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->1987
| hq_location_city = Stuttgart
| hq_location_country = West Germany
| area_served = <!-- or: | areas_served = --> West Germany, [[Zaire]], Libya
| key_people = Lutz Kayser<br />[[Kurt H. Debus]]<br />Frank Wukasch<br />Wolfgang Pilz<br />[[Wernher von Braun]]
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'''OTRAG''' ({{langx|de|links=no|'''Orbital Transport- und Raketen-Aktiengesellschaft'''}},<ref>{{cite news|last=Miller|first=Judith|author-link=Judith Miller|title=U.S. Uneasy Over Military Potential Of Commercially Produced Rockets|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 12, 1981|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/12/world/us-uneasy-over-military-potential-of-commercially-produced-rockets.html|access-date=December 20, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Schneiker|first=Conrad|title=OTRAG: Bold Pioneer Faces Hostile World|date=February 1978|magazine=[[L5 Society#L5 News|L-5 News]]|publisher=[[L5 Society|L-5 Society]]|volume=3|number=2|pages=5–7|format=PDF|url=https://space.nss.org/wp-content/uploads/L5-News-1978-02.pdf|access-date=December 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220214858/https://space.nss.org/wp-content/uploads/L5-News-1978-02.pdf|archive-date=December 20, 2022|via=[[National Space Society]]}}</ref> or {{lang|de|'''Orbital Transport and Rockets, Inc.'''}}), was a West German company based in [[Stuttgart]], which in the late 1970s and early 1980s planned to develop an alternative [[Spacecraft propulsion|propulsion]] system for [[rocket]]s. OTRAG was the first commercial developer and producer of space [[launch vehicle]]s. The [[OTRAG Rocket]] claimed to present an inexpensive alternative to existing launch systems through mass-production of ''Common Rocket Propulsion Units'' (CRPU).