Preliminary design review completed for Giant Magellan Telescope

design of the enclosure, telescope and site at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. © M3 Engineering. Mainz[...] to special devices that will measure the distance of the celestial bodies observed and determine[...] location on top of the Las Campanas Peak offers ideal conditions for 300 cloudless...

Space Encounter: Mars is not our rescue ship

with satellite programmes such as the European Earth observation mission Copernicus. The CO2M mission, which OHB[...] to carry out weather, climate and environmental observations, thus making a major contribution[...] to understanding the Earth system as a whole. Climate change is man-made The...

Copernicus CO2 monitoring mission CO2M passes Space Segment Requirements Review

, a major mission in the European Copernicus Earth observation programme, has successfully passed its Space[...] – An addition to the family for the European Earth observation program Earth observation is one of the most

PLATO: OHB reaching for the stars

. PLATO is a satellite-based observatory for use in space to detect and conduct research into exoplanets[...] in ESA's Cosmic Vision program, which involves observing exoplanets. OHB System AG has been selected by ESA[...] do Earth-like planets have in the habitable zone of stars? In addition,...

SPACE SYSTEMS

for scientific applications, communications and terrestrial observation. Earth Observation The main business[...] activities and applications of OHB System (Oberpfaffenhofen site), entail Earth observation and satellite

Hyperspectral satellite EnMAP ready for orbit

of and changes to the ecosystem on the earth’s surface. The “environmental observer” is to lift off on board[...] new era in earth observation. I am pleased and proud that we have managed to complete this ambitious[...] will generate a wealth of new earth observation data, which is of immense...

The Twenties will be a decade of increased human activity in space

of opportunities for growth in the entire industry especially in the field of Earth observation. Relevant[...] estate agent to check the status of a given area on a realtime basis. Data from Earth observation[...] the data collected by the Copernicus European Earth observation system will be...

OHB SE at the ILA Berlin Air Show

from the fields of Human Space Flight, Defense and Security, Earth Observation, Exploration and Science[...] of the Earth Observation satellite PRISMA. The Augsburg-based subsidiary MT Aerospace, Germany’s largest[...] Meteosat Third Generation (MTG). OHB presents a model of an MTG weather...

OHB awarded contract for the delivery of a VGOS telescope for station in Italy

system. The VGOS telescopes are used for geodetic observation and measurement of the earth’s surface[...] Interferometry Global Observing System) telescope with a height of around 13 meters, including the receiver, data[...] and positional accuracy, involves the utilization of several telescopes...

OHB Italia awarded contract for four further Flyeye telescopes for protection of space environment

telescope able to observe large areas of the visible sky at every exposure, detecting so-called Near Earth[...] . “The deployment of a Flyeye network will allow OHB Italia and Italy to be world leaders in optical observation[...] larger than 1 cm in Earth orbit, any of which can damage operational...