Is there life on Mars?

to the probes that have landed there we already know quite a lot about the Red Planet. And Martian rocks can[...] , we will be landing a rover, which will be collecting rock samples. We know that we have to drill at least two meters[...] , will transport the Russian station with the rover to Mars....

At OHB SE students and graduates are preparing for a career in the space industry with the "Trainee Program" ASTRI

participate in a study for a Micro Moon Landing System for the commercial exploration of the moon[...] to develop a micro moon lander The students and graduates have been selected by OHB System[...] a micro moon lander system for future commercial exploration of the moon. The ASTRI-programme is...

OHB signs memorandum of understanding with Israeli space technology company Helios

. An important milestone has been achieved in the future lunar landing system LSAS (Lunar Surface Access Service[...] , an institutional European moon lander will be available in 2029 at the earliest," says Dr. Lutz Bertling, member[...] to be ready with our LSAS lunar landing service." "Production...

Asteroid Day is Ready to Rock Around the Clock

by a short presentation by program Executive Director Elsbeth Magilton. Following by two full-dome

OHB System AG coordinates ESA project AgriCEM

in the future. With CHIME (Copernicus Hyperspectral Imaging Mission for the Environment) and LSTM (Land Surface[...] characteristics of vegetation, and the land surface temperature. The results will then be used to derive[...] time 12.5 days, spatial resolution 30 m, launch of first satellite:...

OHB SE secures financing for the next 5 years including optional extension

by a syndicate of long-standing principal banks, including Bayerische Landesbank, Commerzbank AG, Deutsche Bank[...] AG, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Unicredit Bank AG and Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale. OHB

Destination Venus part 6: Mechanical rover or atmospheric probes? How do you explore one of the most hostile planets in our solar system?

that this was a mistaken belief became clear at the latest when in 1967 the Soviet Venera-4 landing probe was crushed[...] soft landing on a foreign planet, it failed after just over twenty minutes on the Venusian surface[...] of the surface of Venus in-situ, i.e. with one or more landing probes....

Space Encounter: A satellite from Germany launches a new era in Earth observation

. On land and on water. The earth in countless colours What is special and technologically spectacular about[...] . However, the area on which arable land and agriculture are possible is limited. Overall, it accounts[...] of cities and the progressive sealing of land. However, the many people who...

Space Encounter: Why the exploration of space makes sense, but the colonisation of other planets does not

to the moment when – like the recent landing of the NASA rover on Mars – the mission is a success. Life in space[...] exploration is necessary and makes sense. The subject has fascinated me ever since I watched the moon landings[...] on television with my father when I was a little boy. The idea...

Antwerp Space’s new clean room opens doors toward new European space programmes

– an orbiter and a lander – was launched on 14 March 2016 and has just arrived at the Red Planet. Part two[...] of the mission – a surface platform which will land on Mars and a rover that will explore the planet’s surface[...] is  LaRa  (Lander Radioscience). The LaRa mission was designed by a...