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Cochstedt (dpa) - How safe are drones?
How can you relieve the logistics industry?
And how should a drone actually behave if it gets in the way of an airplane?
These are some of the questions that will be answered in the future at the National Test Center for Unmanned Aviation Systems in Cochstedt.
Today the center will officially open - but only in a virtual event due to the pandemic.
Inter alia, Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU), who is supposed to speak a greeting.
Economics Minister Armin Willingmann (SPD) will also report on the development of the center and its prospects.
The CEO of the operator, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla, and the Federal Government's coordinator for German aerospace, Thomas Jarzombek, are also expected.
Willingmann said the location meant a “center of a future technology in Saxony-Anhalt”.
The research airport will also become a center of attraction for companies from the aviation or logistics sector who are researching their own projects with unmanned flight systems.
In addition to DLR research, companies should also have the opportunity to experiment on their own drone projects in Cochstedt.
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The former military and later commercial airport prevailed among 20 applicants in the search for a German drone center.
As a commercial airport, the airfield was not profitable.
The state government intends to invest a further 15 million euros in the location in the coming years.
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