Destination Venus part 4: What could a mission to Venus look like?

are the conditions that landing systems bound for Venus would have to contend with. And the atmosphere is not easy[...] . These would slow the rate at which the landing probe heats up, thus extending its life. But this would[...] . In the past, probes have landed on the surface and have also...

80-square-meter photo collage by Michael Najjar installed at the OHB event center

event center Artwork featuring the 12 Apollo astronauts paying homage to the first lunar landing roughly[...] an impressive eye-catcher: a lunar landscape measuring 80 square meters extends across the entire sidewall[...] . “The photo collage pays homage to the first lunar landing roughly 50 years...

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...

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....

Asteroid Day is Ready to Rock Around the Clock

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

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...