The Heinrich Hertz mission has a number of ambitious goals. One is to test the suitability of new satellite communications technologies for use in space. Technology must function under very demanding ...

The Heinrich Hertz mission marks the first launch of a dedicated German communications satellite for researching and testing new technologies and communications scenarios.

Arianespace will launch an Ariane 5 ECA+ rocket carrying two satellites - the Heinrich Hertz and Syracuse 4B. We also have a pretty small recap section due to the lack of launches last week.

Heinrich Hertz is named after the German physicist who first relayed electromagnetic waves in free space from a transmitter to a receiver in 1886.

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz -- who, like Van Gogh and Mozart, was a rare genius not fully appreciated during his lifetime -- is honored with a Google Doodle today, his 155th birthday.

Today Google’s homepage sports a mesmerizing animated GIF of rolling waves, dolled up in Google’s colors, in celebration of the 155th birthday of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the German physicist ...

For those who love science and radio (and who doesn’t), the German city of Karlsruhe should have a special place in their hearts. It was there that physicist Heinrich Hertz proved the existence of ...

Heinrich Hertz found his purpose in the invisible. Hertz—who originally wanted to study the more tangible, practical field of civil engineering—was eventually drawn to the theories of James ...

1857: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz is born. The physicist will make key discoveries about the transmission of electromagnetic waves and eventually give his name to a pervasive measurement of the ...

Google is celebrating German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz 155th birth anniversary by transforming the Google symbol on their home page to a series of colourful waves (in yellow, blue, green and ...

German physicist Heinrich Hertz has been honored with his very own wavy Google Doodle on what would have been his 155th birthday.

Heinrich Hertz found his purpose in the invisible. Hertz—who originally wanted to study the more tangible, practical field of civil engineering—was eventually drawn to the theories of James ...