Ulke, Helmut
04 October 1933 (Neu-Röhrsdorf (now Poland))Description Area
Dr. Helmut Ulke studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig. After graduating in 1962, he worked as Assistant Professor at the Institute for Applied Mechanics and received his doctorate in flight mechanics in 1967. In 1968 he left the Technical University of Braunschweig to become head of development and planning at Dornier GmbH in Friedrichshafen. In 1969 he moved to Dornier System GmbH to head the department for missiles. In 1973 he joined the Executive Board of the company and became its CEO in 1985. In 1986 he joined the Executive Board of Dornier GmbH and became CEO in 1989. With the founding of Deutsche Aerospace AG (DASA) in 1989, he became a member of the DASA Executive Board, which he left in 1991 to take early retirement. He sat on various executive and advisory boards, including those of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching and the senate of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). In the context of European space programmes, he was responsible for GEOS (participation in the STAR-Consortium), ISEE-B (International Sun-Explorer), FOC (Faint Object Camera), Ulysses (orbit over the Sun’s poles), Spacelab (ECLS system), Columbus (ECLS system), IPS (Instrument Pointing-System), ERS-1 (Earth Remote Satellite), Envisat (environmental satellite) XMM (X-ray astronomy) and participated in the Ariane Programme.
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Ulke, Helmut
04 October 1933 (Neu-Röhrsdorf (now Poland))Description Area
Dr. Helmut Ulke studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig. After graduating in 1962, he worked as Assistant Professor at the Institute for Applied Mechanics and received his doctorate in flight mechanics in 1967. In 1968 he left the Technical University of Braunschweig to become head of development and planning at Dornier GmbH in Friedrichshafen. In 1969 he moved to Dornier System GmbH to head the department for missiles. In 1973 he joined the Executive Board of the company and became its CEO in 1985. In 1986 he joined the Executive Board of Dornier GmbH and became CEO in 1989. With the founding of Deutsche Aerospace AG (DASA) in 1989, he became a member of the DASA Executive Board, which he left in 1991 to take early retirement. He sat on various executive and advisory boards, including those of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching and the senate of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). In the context of European space programmes, he was responsible for GEOS (participation in the STAR-Consortium), ISEE-B (International Sun-Explorer), FOC (Faint Object Camera), Ulysses (orbit over the Sun’s poles), Spacelab (ECLS system), Columbus (ECLS system), IPS (Instrument Pointing-System), ERS-1 (Earth Remote Satellite), Envisat (environmental satellite) XMM (X-ray astronomy) and participated in the Ariane Programme.