News 2017

The new European launch vehicle ARIANE 6 is to embark on its maiden flight from the Kourou space center in French Guiana in July 2020.

OHB System AG has today signed a contract with the European launch services provider Arianespace for the launch of the Heinrich Hertz civil/military telecommunications satellite.

The four satellites for the Galileo European navigation system reached their target orbit in space at 23:31 hours (CET) yesterday after a transit time of just under four hours.

A further four Galileo satellites to be launched on December 12.

In a ceremony attended by Brigitte Zypries, German Federal Minister of Economics and Energy, Marco Fuchs, the Chief Executive Officer of Bremen-based space and technology group OHB, presented a donation in the form of a cheque to the orbitall discovery center in Berlin.

Marco R. Fuchs, CEO of OHB System AG, has today signed a contract with the customer for the implementation of a global electro-optical satellite system for reconnaissance.

The space system and technology group OHB SE is celebrating the tenth anniversary of a product with which the Bremen-based company achieved its breakthrough to become a leading German systems specialist.

LuxSpace is to conduct research into new and innovative approaches to aircraft positioning and monitoring based on the ADS-B process for the European Space Agency ESA.

The European Commission has exercised one of its contractual options for the European Galileo navigation system and ordered a further four satellites from OHB System AG.

Board members and experts from all companies within the Bremen-based space and technology group OHB SE are traveling to Adelaide, Australia, to attend the International Astronautical Congress IAC at which space agencies, the space technology industry and also scientists will be present in large numbers.