The German aerospace society DGLR recognizes the contributions of Professor Schilling and his team to the field of small satellites with the prestigious Eugen-Sänger-medal.

ESA General Director Aschbacher signed together with Prof. Dr. Schilling as President of Zentrum für Telematik (ZfT) a "Memorandum of Cooperation" to initiate an ESA_Lab@ZfT .

In 2019 ESA asked for ideas to map and explore lunar caves on their Open Space

Innovation Platform. A consortium of international scientists led by Prof. Dr.

Andreas Nüchter (Informatics VII - Robotics and Telematics) submitted their idea

of a spherical robot equipped with an immersive stereoscopic camera and a lidar

system.