At the Hanover Fair 2009, Christian Wulff, Minister President of Lower Saxony, Germany, awarded the Space Spin-Off Award 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: 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.