On 22 July 2012 at 08:41:39 CEST, the first small German satellite in the 'On-Orbit-Verification' (OOV) programme was carried into orbit from the Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan by a Russian Soyuz launch vehicle. TET-1 is a technology testbed with 11 experiments on board that will be operated in space for a year. Read more