Satellites

platforms and the satellite level integration and test. SSTL will supply the satellite payloads[...] geostationary platform (SmallGEO) for communications applications is being developed under OHB's lead management[...] platform in the 3-ton class. Customers can select a classic, hybrid or...

#DestinationVenus Part 8: On a flying visit to Earth's closest neighbour

Last month, Venus received two visits from Earth: Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo used the planet[...] to Venus: Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo used the planet's gravity to lose a little orbital energy[...] is travelling to the innermost planet Mercury and Solar Orbiter is on its way to study the...

Space Encounter: Bremen consolidating its “City of Space” reputation as the host of the IAC 2018

imagination about what still remains to be discovered out there in the vast expanses of space. The PLATO[...] it will be able to photograph them, something that has previously not been possible. However, PLATO will only[...] abstract idea, which is why PLATO is also a scientific mission; but it...

#DestinationVenus Part 9: What insights can we expect from the new Venus missions?

20. October 2021 "It’ll be an exciting time for planetary science" Astrophysicist Dr Michael Joseph Way[...] . His scientific interests include both the multiscale structure of the universe and the modelling of planetary[...] history of the planet and also an idea of how much water the planet had,...

SmallGEO – A multi-purpose geostationary satellite platform

07. February 2018 Press Releases SmallGEO – A multi-purpose geostationary satellite platform[...] The new brochure “ SmallGEO – A multi-purpose geostationary satellite platform (click here to open[...] …) ” by OHB System AG provides information on the versatile SmallGEO platform for geostationary...

Destination Venus part 2: Why a mission to venus can spark the development of new technologies

9, 2005. The data collected by the probe in the atmophere of the planet between 2006 and 2014 contributed[...] of a fate that Earth may also face in the future, namely extreme drought. So, both planets are worth[...] more challenging because the planet is closer to the sun. But I think it would...

5 Questions and Answers about the MTG - Meteosat Third Generation weather satellite programme

forecasts for Europe in geostationary orbit, with OHB technology playing a key role. The satellite platform[...] responsibility for all six satellite platforms, two IRS (infrared sounding) instruments for both Sounder[...] will the other launches take place? Currently, the launch of the first...

Return to the Moon: First Apollo, now Artemis

in the project via a subsidiary: the Propulsion Qualification Model (PQM), the test platform for the ESM’s[...] for missions to the Moon surface but also to Mars and other more distant targets. It is a platform[...] , Vice President Mike Pence announced plans by the U.S. administration for...

MT Mechatronics and Max Planck Institute to collaborate on the large-scale radio telescope project SKA

07. February 2018 Press Releases MT Mechatronics and Max Planck Institute to collaborate[...] ) and Bonn's Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) today signed an agreement to build a prototype[...] for Square Kilometre Array. The plan is to build the world's largest and most powerful...

Destination Venus part 4: What could a mission to Venus look like?

around Venus on April 11, 2006, studying the planet’s atmosphere until the end of November 2014[...] of the mission. For some studies, taking measures from an orbit around the planet would be perfectly adequate[...] , while for others data would need to be collected in the planet’s atmosphere or...