sentences:  An order worth €124.4 million for a new geoscientific research ship was placed by the German federal ministry for education and research (90%) together with the coastal states Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Bremen and Hamburg (10%) in May 2011.The new ship, also called "Sonne," was built in Meyer Werft in Papenburg, and replaced the old "Sonne" in 2015.Its launch took place on 5 April 2014.