Rocket Factory Augsburg signs agreement with Andøya Space for maiden flight

to move our project forward. We look forward to supporting them in their missions into polar and sun[...] capacity of 1.5 tons. The launcher is intended to place small satellites in a low earth orbit from Europe[...] observation facilities. Andøya Space is owned by the Norwegian government (90 %)...

OHB selected by MDA Space as part of MDA AURORA supply chain

450 missions, MDA Space is a global leader in communications satellites, Earth and space observation[...] of satellite systems for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications and reconnaissance[...] for space missions and other applications. The product and service portfolio focuses on the...

OHB celebrates the successful launch of EnMAP

this highly complex mission." The launch of EnMAP marked the beginning of a new era in Earth observation, said[...] the actual mission is just getting off the ground and I hope that EnMAP will reveal completely new insights[...] events and thanked the employees for their commitment to this...

Luxembourg satellite ESAIL has reached the European spaceport in Kourou

by Arianespace’s Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS). The microsatellite will fly in a low earth orbit (“LEO[...] Orbit”) at an altitude of approx. 500 kilometers above the surface of the earth. Prior to this, however[...] experts have arrived at the launch site in Kourou. The customer...

Up, up and away: First new MTG-Imager satellite with OHB technology successfully launched into space

among the guests at the numerous launch events. As Rüdiger Schönfeld, Director of Earth Observation[...] is also the prime contractor for the upcoming MTG Sounder mission. "It is always a moving moment when[...] the first satellite is launched for a mission on which we have been working...

Dr. Wolfgang Paetsch joining the Management Board of OHB System AG

and the European Union. These include navigation, Earth observation and weather satellites, science and exploration[...] missions and human space flight projects. “We have gained in Dr. Paetsch an experienced manager from within[...] :  Marianne Radel Head of Corporate Communications Phone: +49...

OHB proceeds with consolidation phase for ESA’s Asteroid Impact Mission

to collide with Earth. In addition the mission will provide an excellent opportunity to validate new platform[...] and navigation form a crucial part of the mission design,” explains OHB project manager Marc Scheper. “First[...] Mission OHB System AG, subsidiary of listed technology and space...

Research in zero gravity environment:

18. November 2019 Press Release Research in zero gravity environment: Successful mission[...] at OHB System AG. As in the previous TEXUS missions, Pfeuffer and his team were responsible[...] ” space air twice and performs in-situ observations of foreign phase particles in fluids

Space Encounter: A spaceport in the North Sea would catapult Germany into the future as a location of the aerospace industry

is the use of smaller fleets and swarms of satellites for applications such as Earth observation and communications[...] in terms of position and orientation. In follow-up missions, this formation flight will open up new[...] back to Earth. These formation control technologies, which were...

Billiards in space - DART and Hera

observing these asteroids: they are also working on possible models and missions that could prevent serious[...] change were to be carried out by observatories on Earth. Hera as successor to AIM However, at the ESA[...] Asteroid Redirection Test) designed by NASA and the observation probe AIM...