25 April 2009:
Günther H. Oettinger, Secretary of State Baden-Württemberg, handed Dr. Hanna von Hoerner the State Award for conspicuous service. Read more (external link in german).
ILA 2008
May 2008:
vH&S participates in the ILA (Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrtausstellung), Berlin. Solero is exposed and run on a marslike surface. Sabine Klinkner is interviewed on Space Rovers ( Listen to the Interview (external link) ).
More information about the ILA.
COSIMA's flyby of the Šteins asteroids
September 2008:
The most recent dust spectrometer COSIMA, launched in March 2004 will carry out its main analysis when reaching the orbit of the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in May 2014. In September 2008 it will still expose a target for dust collection during the flyby of the Šteins asteroids.
ECOMA launched
August 2007: ECOMA consists of a set of three instruments built by vH&S. Since August 2007 they have been launched successfully and investigated the properties of meteoric smoke particles in the upper mesosphere.
TWINS-A launched
28 June 2006:
The first of the two TWINS satellites, TWINS-A, with the LAD FM1 built by vH&S onboard, has been successfully launched into space from Vandenverg AFB, California at 28 June 2006. Read more.
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