The assembly and integration progress of DDA-Sensor reveals the flight instrument’s final dimensions and appearance for the first time. Reaching this intermediate milestone is essential to initiate the MLI fabrication.
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The Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg has published a new press release detailing the latest advancements in the construction of the Coronagraph Instrument (CGI).
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At the beginning of July, the European telescope EUCLID launched into space. The centerpiece is a high-resolution telescope equipped with two cameras: one for the visible wavelength range and one for the near-infrared range.
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On July 5th, 2023, at 7:00 pm Kourou time, the last Ariane 5 flight delivered the Heinrich-Hertz satellite into orbit. On board: an Electric Propulsion Diagnostic Package (EPDP) designed by a joint collaboration of von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH, OHB System AG, and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU).
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The EM model mechanics of the DDA sensorhead developed by IRS and the EM electronics developed by vH&S
were successfully integrated at the IRS cleanroom facilities.
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The German EnMAP mission showed its first hyperspectral images after the launch at 1. April.
vH&S, also involved in the electronics of the flight instrument, congratulates all involved parties to this great success and wishes the EnMAP mission many years of excellent service!
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Thanks for being with us at this significant milestone.
50 years have been an exciting ride to ever new frontiers,
together we made it. Happy golden anniversary!
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Dec 2018: vHS developed the LED calibration unit (NI-CU) for the Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument for the ESA Euclid Mission. The Flight Model was delivered at the mid of last year and has now been integrated into the NISP Instrument.
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Launch preparations for the next CONE4 campaign organised by IAP Kühlungsborn have been finalised during the last days at the Andøya Space Center’s rocket range in northern Norway.
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May 2016: vHS is currently developing the LED calibration unit (NI-CU) for the Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument for the ESA Euclid Mission. The Structural Thermal Model was delivered at the end of last year and has now been integrated into the NISP Development Model.
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On the 3 December 2015, a Vega rocket from Kourou, French Guiana was launched carrying ESA’s Lisa Pathfinder satellite. The satellite, a technology demonstrator for a future gravitational wave observatory mission, carries a Command & Telemetry Interface (CTI) card designed and built by vH&S to be part of the Charge Management System (CMS) for the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London.
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November 2015: After 4 exciting days at the Space Tech Expo our Team is back. We want to thank everybody who visited us for the interesting and fruitful meetings.
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March 2015: Within the atmospheric research campaign WADIS-2, a sounding rocket with two CONE-FM3 electronics built by vH&S has been successfully launched on 5.3.2015 2:44 am from the Andoya rocket range.
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The 12th and 13th November 2014 were especially interesting days for everyone at von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH (vH&S). We were awaiting, with bated breath, the touchdown of the landing robot Philae, part of the ESA Rosetta mission, on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko or “Chury” as some like to call it.
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November 2014: After a successful launch of Progress 57 on 30.10.2014, the high voltage current source PK4HV, built by vH&S for the PK4 experiment, arrived at the ISS (International Space Station).
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This is the Rosetta year! von Hoerner & Sulger supported the BDLI space pavillion at the Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrt Austellung Berlin (ILA) by exhibiting the COSIMA Mass Spectrometer for the Rosetta Mission.
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November 2013: For the first time a national space robotic competition took place. The SpaceBot Cup was arranged by the DLR space administration funded by the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi).
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June 2013: Dr. Hanna von Hoerner was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by Dr. Nils Schmid (vize head of government of Baden-Württemberg).
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With the ILA 2012 for the first time at the new location Berlin Airport von Hoerner & Sulger supported the BDLI space pavillion by exhibiting the space rovers SOLERO and NANOKHOD.
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COSIMA and SOLERO have been part of the space exhibition within the framework of “Vorstellung der Raumfahrtstrategie der Bundesregierung” on 1st of December 2010 in Berlin at BMWi.
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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 at the Šteins asteroid.
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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.
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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.
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14 Jan. 2003: The ROSETTA launch, with our COSIMA experiment onboard, has been postponed due to difficulties with the launcher. Further news can be found at the ROSETTA and Arianespace homepages.
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