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About Thomas Terzibaschian
Thomas Terzibaschian is a physicist and has been working in Berlin-Adlershof since 1985 - initially at the Institute for Cosmos Research and since 1992 at the newly founded DLR site. His start in cosmos research was more a matter of chance. But the contact with real space technology and the people who were able to develop and build such things was so exciting and fascinating that he could not escape its effect.
Initially, he worked with optical devices such as Fourier spectrometers and digital cameras for space missions. He was also introduced to the theory and practice of controlling stochastic systems, which he found very exciting. Here he learnt how to extract something from noisy signals in order to be able to control a system on the basis of the information obtained. His first space mission with his own contributions was the MARS 96 mission. He spent countless hours in DLR research aircraft testing camera systems for the Mars mission. Later, the newly developed special sensors for fire detection and fire measurement were added.
In 1999, he began developing the control system for BIRD, the first satellite built at DLR. Three satellites are now flying in space using the control system he developed (BIRD, 2001, TET-1, 2012 and BIROS, 2016). During the construction of the TET-1 satellite, he went into industry for several years on behalf of the DLR Space Administration to transfer his knowledge for the TET-1.
All his successes to date have always been the result of interdisciplinary collaboration with electronics engineers, mathematicians, software specialists, other natural scientists and often also colleagues from industry. Thomas Terzibaschian is deeply convinced that true miracles can be achieved at DLR when specialists from different institutions and disciplines work well together. He is driven by the desire to achieve this time and time again.