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Austrian Space Agency

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The Austrian Space Agency, officially known since 2005 as the Aeronautics and Space Agency, is an organization that coordinates space exploration related activities of Austria, involved in both national programmes and multinational efforts coordinated through the European Space Agency. The agency was established in 1972 and is headquartered in Vienna; Austria became a member state of the European Space Agency on 1 January 1987, and the agency is notable for coordinating the first spaceflight of an Austrian, engineer Franz Viehboeck, aboard a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft during 1990.

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Agency Type
National space agency 1
Founded Year
1972 1
Headquarters
Vienna, Austria 1
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Who currently heads the Austrian Space Agency (the Aeronautics and Space Agency division of the FFG), given the agency's own site could not be verified live?, Open Questions
Source Wikipedia: Austrian Space Agency
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  • Lead section, first paragraph
    The Austrian Space Agency, officially known since 2005 as the Aeronautics and Space Agency (German: Agentur für Luft- und Raumfahrt), is an organization whose purpose is to coordinate Austrian space exploration-related activities.
  • Lead section, second paragraph
    The Austrian Space Agency was established in 1972, its headquarters is located in Vienna.
  • Open Questions: Who currently heads the Austrian Space Agency (the Aeronautics and Space Agency division of the FFG), given the agency's own site could not be verified live?
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Who currently heads the Austrian Space Agency (the Aeronautics and Space Agency division of the FFG), given the agency's own site could not be verified live?

The Austrian Space Agency (the Aeronautics and Space Agency, a division of the FFG, the Austrian Research Promotion Agency) publishes its own current leadership on its own ffg.at pages, but those pages returned a Cloudflare bot-verification challenge page on every fetch attempt during this research pass, so the sitting head's name could not be confirmed against a live primary source. Wikipedia's own article on the agency does not name a current head at all.

What would resolve this A successful fetch of the FFG's own Aeronautics and Space Agency staff or leadership page (ffg.at), or a dated Austrian government or space-industry press item naming the sitting head.
Contemporary Austrian government and public administration reportingWikipedia: Austrian Space Agency
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