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...

Space Encounter: Bezos' audacious ride into space will give new impetus to useful space technology

had separated from the New Shepard rocket about three minutes after launch, landed safely back[...] on Earth near the launch site in West Texas. The reusable rocket landed just before that, spreading plumes[...] rocket launch and the safe vertical landing of the reusable stage, it also involved...

Destination Venus part 3: Was Venus a twin of Earth millions of years ago?

and why he is hoping for a new lander mission. OHB’s CEO Marco Fuchs recently said in an interview[...] planets are interesting in their own way, why is it that Mars gets a lot of orbiters and landing missions[...] space programs to Venus. They have had several successful landers, they have made...

Return to the Moon: First Apollo, now Artemis

to the surface of the Moon in five years’ time. NASA’s timetable had previously scheduled the next Moon landing[...] outlined by Mike Pence, the next landing of astronauts on the Moon by 2024. Subsequently, by 2028[...] : for the Artemis 3 mission, as part of which the next Moon landing by...

The Dream Chaser® for European Utilization Program Takes Flight with Memorandum of Understanding

reusable, lifting-body spacecraft with a commercial runway landing capability, anywhere in the world[...] , compatibility with the European Ariane 6 launch vehicle and the ability to land on suitable runways for near[...] of transporting pressurized and unpressurized cargo to and from LEO with...

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

Platform Mission” (RSP), OHB’s carrier module will be transporting a descent module, containing a landing[...] is divided into two missions to the Red Planet: The trace gas orbiter (TGO) and an entry and landing module[...] transporting the descent and landing module and the rover to Mars....

OHB and The Exploration Company intend to accelerate European lunar exploration GNC technologies

the use of OHB lunar lander to accelerate the development of European space technologies. “We aim[...] Access Service (LSAS) that is planned to land on the Moon in 2025. “Together we are focusing on a New[...] that will be developed based on the lunar lander will lower the barriers for the...

OHB Sweden signs contracts with Thales Alenia Space for propulsion subsystems on CHIME and ROSE-L

and multi-spectral imaging instruments for land, ocean and atmospheric monitoring. Data from the Copernicus[...] aperture radar and will enable soil moisture monitoring, land cover mapping, crop type and condition[...] monitoring of the cryosphere and polar regions, including sea ice mapping and ...

OHB SE renewing syndicated loan ahead of schedule on improved terms

by a syndicate comprising a total of seven banks under the lead management of Bayerische Landesbank, Commerzbank[...] -Pfalz Bank and Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale. OHB SE was advised by financial advisors Herter