There’s quite a lot going on up there: space debris is becoming an ever bigger problem

and define the primary requirements for the avoidance of space debris. The ISO standard also states[...] for Space Standardization (ECSS). The rules set out the ISO standard are effectively our 10 commandments[...] that satellites in low earth orbits are only allowed to stay in orbit for 25...

Space Encounter: Germany demonstrates claim to technology leadership

of the 22 member states of the European Space Agency ESA. ESA members have also made it clear that they are willing[...] contributions to the enormous challenges of our time. Space has long since ceased to be a field in which states[...] from Germany participate in research and technology testing...

OHB CEO Fuchs: Asteroid research to protect the Earth

. Statistically, an asteroid impact capable of causing major damage must be expected every few centuries according[...] , no matter where we live.” The more research that is performed into asteroids – starting with localization[...] .” “So we have to start now in close cooperation with other...

Sign of respect

, December 3, 2018. Starting today, a square in Bremen commemorates the life and work of the entrepreneur[...] around other stars that are similar to our sun in the habitable zone,” explains Marco Fuchs[...] even very small regular light losses that occur when planets fly past a star, briefly...

OHB awarded ESA contract for the development of 3 Biological Experiment Units for the Biolab facility on board the ISS

under microgravity conditions onboard the International Space Station (ISS). OHB has the role of the prime contractor[...] of the International Space Station ISS. The launches of the experiment hardware and the experiment executions[...] for one of the three experiments. The project has an order...

OHB SE offers an outlook on the business development in 2018

to be EUR 47 million. OHB SE’s audited consolidated financial statements for 2017 will be presented[...] the upper stage tanks of the newly to be developed European launcher Ariane 6 are welded. On this occasion

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OHB now also with a key role in the second ExoMars mission

. With the assistance of a fixed Russian station and the mobile rover, the second mission is to continue and intensify[...] model, an electronics test stand, the flight model and replacement parts, various items of ground[...] by the electronics test stand at the beginning of 2018. ExoMars: two...

Belgium and LaRa on their way to Mars

mission by the ESA and Roscosmos, Russia’s state space corporation. “Antwerp Space is proud and honoured[...] ground control stations for the reception of data from observation satellites and for the control

Protecting the Earth from threats from outer space

capable of causing enormous damage on the surface of the Earth statistically only strikes every few[...] that wants to write history “The Hera mission is Europe’s contribution to a joint but staggered ‘planetary[...] centuries. Even so, it is important to learn more about these celestial bodies –...