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.

The four NetSat satellites for formation flying were built in Würzburg and financed by the European Research Council with an Advanced Grant. The launch was supported by the Bavarian Ministry of Economics and happened on 28.9.2020. More detailed information: www.telematik-zentrum.de/netsat