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KATRIN's Odyssey

People went to great lengths, traveling almost 9000 kilometers over more than 60 days, to deliver an essential, 200-ton component of the KATRIN neutrino experiment.

They watched, guided, worried, and then celebrated when, having navigated a carefully choreographed route across water and land, the instrument finally arrived in Karlsruhe after 63 days of travel. Perched on a large carrier vehicle, the spectrometer, like a displaced spaceship wedged between homes, made its way to the Karlsruhe Research Center through Leopoldshafen. The crane, reassembled at the research center, lifted the instrument to its final position through an open roof, bringing the spectrometer’s journey to an end.

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