At Hanover Fair 2009, Christian Wulff, Minister President
of Lower Saxony, Germany, awarded the first ESA ‘Space Spin-Off’ prize to the German company HTG Hyperschall Technologie Göttingen. The company was recognised for its outstanding performance in the area of ‘space to non-space technology transfer’. From left: Werner Dupont,
Managing Director of MST Aerospace, Christian Wulff, Minister
President of Lower Saxony, Germany, Prof. Georg Koppenwallner, CEO of HTG Hyperschall Technologie Göttingen, and Frank M. Salzgeber, Head of ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office.