ESA Supplier Performance Award for OHB System AG

for outstanding performance as Prime Contractor for the PLATO mission Bremen, 20 November 2025 – The European[...] recognizes OHB’s outstanding work as Prime Contractor for the scientific mission PLATO (PLAnetary Transits[...] and budget – despite the challenges involved in developing a mission...

Basic research in space: Getting to the bottom of complex plasmas

05. December 2019 Press Release Basic research in space Getting to the bottom of complex plasmas[...] Oberpfaffenhofen, December 6, 2019. Three-dimensional complex plasmas in space were the subject of a scientific[...] the scientific results of the “PK-4” plasma laboratory, which has been on...

OHB holding topping-out ceremony for its largest integration hall

of the PLATO hall. © OHB Bremen, November 8, 2019. The OHB family of companies today celebrated the completion[...] of the outer shell of the new PLATO hall at Lise-Meitner-Strasse 8 with a “topping-out ceremony”. With a floor[...] wreath on top of the building. The new building complex is to be...

Mission accomplished: OHB placing the largest clean room in operation

of construction, the PLATO hall has now been officially completed at space company OHB’s headquarters in Bremen[...] in the PLATO hall. Work will also be continued on the Heinrich Hertz communication satellite project[...] . The new building complex is called PLATO, a symbolic act that marks the...

Anniversary at 36,000 km altitude

the European Space Agency (ESA) and HISPASAT, and was the first flight opportunity of the SmallGEO platform[...] flight of the SmallGEO platform developed by OHB in ESA's ARTES programme and the culmination of ESA's[...] , as the design of the satellite platform we developed was once again...

OHB subsidiary LuxSpace and Universität der Bundeswehr München sign contract for SeRANIS mission with Triton-X platform

contract for SeRANIS mission Mission is based on Triton-X platform Betzdorf, 25. Oktober 2022. LuxSpace[...] multifunctional experimental laboratory in orbit and will use the LuxSpace built Triton-X heavy platform which[...] enables the integration of all SeRANIS experimental payloads on one plat...

SmallGEO: Europe’s new geostationary satellite platform made in Germany

07. February 2018 Press Releases SmallGEO: Europe’s new geostationary satellite platform made[...] in Germany Versatile platform for 3-ton-class satellites in a geostationary orbit First SmallGEO satellite[...] geostationary satellite platform. “The SmallGEO platform has restored system...

Sign of respect

) at the ground-breaking ceremony for the new PLATO hall at OHB's headquarters in Bremen. © OHB Bremen[...] Schlichtmann, from architectural office Kaars Schlichtmann Planungsgesellschaft in Bremen. PLATO the name sake[...] The new building complex is to be called PLATO , this also being also...

OHB contributing to definition phase for Venus mission EnVision

for implementation in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme. Another medium-class mission within the programme is the PLATO[...] into the geological evolution of Venus. Venus: Earth's sister planet Venus is Earth's closest neighbouring planet[...] and is similar to it in size, mass and chemical...

LuxSpace entering the hot phase with Triton-X

platform on its way from the design phase to the finished prototype   Betzdorf, January 9, 2019[...] platform to the next level. Over the last 12 months it has been designing the architecture for Triton[...] of the platform and its subsystems and plans to develop the platform with partner...