News 2016

Telecommunications satellite H36W-1 of Bremen satellite manufacturer OHB has arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

Another four Galileo FOC* satellites developed and built by OHB System AG have been successfully launched on board an Ariane 5 ES launcher, which lifted off from the Kourou space center in French-Guiana today at 14:06 CET.

On November 7th, 2016, Leonardo signed a EUR 74 million contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to design, build and test the instrument for the satellite FLEX (FLuorescence EXplorer), ESA’s eighth Earth Explorer.

OHB System AG has successfully competed in the competition for the consolidation phase of ESA’s Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM).

Today Antwerp Space has officially opened its new clean room, in the presence of Belgian State Secretary for Science Policy Elke Sleurs and Mayor of Antwerp Bart De Wever.

The ExoMars-Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) has successfully performed the long 139-minute burn required to be captured by Mars and entered an elliptical orbit around the Red Planet.

Antwerp Space N.V. signed a contract with ESA for supplying the instrument called LaRa (Lander Radioscience) to fly to Mars on board the ExoMars 2020 mission.

The Dream Chaser® for European Utilization (DC4EU) program kicked off its pilot phase with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

OHB System AG has been awarded a contract by DLR Space Administration to oversee numerous new communications technologies.

CGS SpA Compagnia Generale per lo Spazio have signed the contract for the realization of the MicroWave Imager (MWI) instrument for the MetOp Second Generation (SG) weather satellites.