Performance-defining
HOERBIGER is committed to setting the bar high with its products and services. The fact that this commitment becomes reality time and time again is proven by the use of HOERBIGER components in space.
Wherever HOERBIGER operates, the company is a benchmark for performance. Its employees never settle for mediocrity. On the contrary, their goal is to identify and embrace trends with a pioneering spirit, and then develop products and services that set global standards and are recognized as benchmarks in their respective industries.
The key feature of HOERBIGER components is that they are “performance-defining” – meaning they are crucial to the functionality of a system or technology. HOERBIGER components significantly impact the performance, efficiency, or effectiveness of a system, thanks to their precision, reliability, and longevity.
Our performance-defining components earned their “knighthood” when the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft reached the comet Tschuri, after travelling more than 6 billion kilometers, in August 2014. The arrival of the Philae lander marked the first successful landing on a comet in history.
Philae was equipped with 28 “MegaMic” microvalves, developed by HOERBIGER in collaboration with the Hahn- Schickard Society. “Each valve weighed less than 2 grams and was designed to function in a temperature range from –60 to +220 degrees Celsius,” recalls Dr. Jochen Schaible, the project leader at the time. “Our keys to space were the valves’ extreme durability, their exceptionally low energy consumption, the mechanical properties made possible only through silicon microsystems technology, and the miniaturized design that resulted from it.”
“Our keys to space were the valves’ extreme durability, their exceptionally low energy consumption and the miniaturized design.”
HOERBIGER Holding AG