Hyperspectral satellite EnMAP ready for orbit

that the satellite is now ready for its journey into space! EnMAP is to provide new types of data on the state[...] a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher in April 2022 and will be placed in a solar-synchronous orbit around the earth[...] of the German Space Agency at DLR with funding provided by the German...

Global Leaders In Planetary Science Announce Asteroid Day In Luxembourg In 2017

role related to asteroids, within the framework of the  SpaceResources.lu  initiative[...] . Indeed, the use of space resources, both on earth and in space, holds great potential for future[...] in space and we can help spread the message around the world. As global leaders in our industry, we...

National Heinrich Hertz satellite communications mission: OHB orders satellite payload from Tesat

-Spacecom, signing the contract at the IAC (front from left). © OHB Bremen, October 2nd, 2018. OHB System[...] in the presence of representatives of the Space Administration of the German Aerospace Center (DLR): The Backnang[...] -up and assembling the necessary ground infrastructure. The Heinrich...

2020

: +49 421 2020 6511 Email: pia.bausch@ohb.de News 2020 23. December 2020 European space and digital players[...] service providers to study the design, development and launch of a European-owned space-based[...] to ClearSpace-1 mission OHB Sweden contributes to ClearSpace-1 mission. Space debris...

OHB participating in the ESPRIT module for future lunar orbital Gateway

Gateway Thales Alenia Space France relying on OHB System AG’s expertise Bremen, September 28, 2018[...] .  Over the many years in which it has been operating in low earth orbit, the International Space Station[...] ISS has provided valuable new insight  for human spaceflight, thus paving the way...

Obituary for Ulrich Schulz

was the motto for us as well as for Uli. In 1985 his first space project came along: a centrifuge for examining[...] blood and urine samples in the Space Shuttle laboratory Spacelab. Required was a functional prototype[...] for only 100,000 DM, which should also already be qualified for use in sp...

OHB celebrates successful launch of the first Arctic Weather Satellite

Satellite (AWS): The new weather satellite was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force[...] Base in California, USA. Shortly afterwards, it sent its first signal from space. OHB Sweden[...] , a subsidiary of the space and technology group OHB SE, had developed and built the...

Europe’s weather satellites MTG taking shape

of the first MTG (Meteosat Third Generation) weather satellite, which is scheduled to launch into space in 2021[...] . Flight hardware headed for Cannes to Thales Alenia Space facilities OHB has successfully completed[...] , the mirror system left the premises of the OHB Space Center “Optics and...

OHB’s second SmallGEO satellite in orbit

SpaceDataHighway Launch of EDRS-C with an Ariane 5 launcher from the Kourou spaceport. © ESA/CNES/Arianespace[...] -C, which is the second node of the SpaceDataHighway system (also known as European Data Relay System, EDRS[...] ), lifted off from the European Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana...

Detecting extreme weather events earlier than ever before: OHB celebrates successful mating of the MTG sounder satellite

space conditions Bremen, 11 October 2023 - German space and technology company OHB is celebrating[...] has been successfully assembled by OHB System AG on behalf of the European Space Agency ESA, in partnership[...] for the major test campaign under simulated space conditions. "This satellite...