OHB Venture Capital and LuxSpace establishing company in Luxembourg to enable sustainable life in space

conditions for enabling sustainable life in space and for revitalizing ravaged landscapes on the Earth by applying[...] particularly follows OHB’s practical approach of engaging in useful space activities that benefit life on Earth[...] science products and services for space and Earth use. “What...

#EngineeringOurEarth Part 4: How TU Delft contributes to the geoengineering consortium established by OHB

How can the Earth be shaded from space? Students at TU Delft are currently working on mission[...] . Simply put, space-based geoengineering aims to partially shade the Earth from sunlight. And if a solar[...] on the orbital dynamics of a solar shield in the vicinity of the Sun-Earth L1 point as...

Space Encounter: The new Cold War in space: Here's how it affects the succession of the ISS

of its own. This would mean that there would soon be three space stations orbiting Earth: the ISS[...] it. And a decision must be made on how the West will position itself in LEO, i.e. the low Earth orbit between 200[...] and 2000 kilometres above the Earth. NASA took an important step in this...

Astronaut Matthias Maurer to exercise on board the ISS with an OHB-qualified EMS suit

care in space The farther away astronauts are from the earth, the greater is the risk[...] that it will not be possible to treat them quickly enough in the event of an injury. A quick return to Earth is out[...] on board the ISS. The samples will be subsequently returned to the earth, where they...

Protein Out of Thin Air: OHB to make revolutionary technology with Solar Foods for future astronauts

missions to the Moon or Mars – without resupply from Earth? One possible answer doesn’t grow in fields[...] of the Station. Unlike on Earth where a pinch of ammonia is used as the nitrogen source, in space urea serves[...] global challenges on Earth – such as resource scarcity and food security....

OHB prime contractor for development and assembly of the LEO-PNT navigation demonstration satellites

satellites and the associated payloads for the LEO-PNT (Low Earth Orbit - Positioning Navigation Timing[...] the high-orbit Galileo satellites and users on the surface of the Earth. The payloads will augment[...] the end of their mission, descend and consequently burn up in the Earth’s...

Guidelines for a sustainable Space Traffic Management

Trackable objects in orbit around Earth: The debris field shown in the image is an artist's[...] . Especially in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), where the International Space Station (ISS) is located and where[...] : Around 8,500 tonnes of space debris are permanently orbiting around our Earth at...

Artemis, the Gateway and the future of humanity in space

reasons to return to the Moon. On 20 July 1969, Apollo 11 brought the first astronauts to Earth's only[...] on the lunar surface before returning to their lander and making their way back to Earth. It was not until[...] it is not too far from home – if something should go wrong, a fall back to Ea...

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

07. September 2021 On a flying visit to Earth's closest neighbour – Two flybys kick off the "Venusian[...] Earth's nearest neighboring planet with a mechanical rover, OHB is pressing ahead with the development[...] of its development provide us with information about our Earth" Dr...

What is Galileo capable of?

are already orbiting the earth, with this number to increase to a total of 34 by 2020. The satellites emit[...] and forwards it to the emergency call center on the earth, which can then react immediately. How did this all[...] are already visible from all points of the earth. This means that,...