In accordance with the German space strategy the Heinrich-Hertz mission shall achieve the following goals: Maintaining and developing key skills of German payload and platform technologies for geostationary communication satellites; Securing and strengthening system capability for payloads of geostationary communications satellites; Demonstration of scientific/technical communication experiments including new ground technologies; Maintaining and expanding the system capability for small geostationary communication satellites in an independent German Mission; Provision of satellite transponder capacity for the tasks of the German Ministry of Defense.