Bavarian State Minister Aiwanger visiting OHB in Bavaria

of the Earth as a system, as Chiara Pedersoli explains: “The national EnMAP mission uses a hyperspectral[...] tenders for the Copernicus European Earth observation program and will thus be making a crucial[...] to Earth observation, depend on space industry. Among other things, the system...

How MT Mechatronics is using radio telescopes to help answer the major questions of interest to humanity

2019 A mission to Venus will help us to better understand the Earth Marco Fuchs, CEO of OHB[...] on Earth. Jan Wörner, ESA Director General, is convinced that further missions to Venus would also have[...] to seven years" Missions to Venus are extremely challenging. Dr. Rolf Janovsky, head of pre

Destination Venus part 2: Why a mission to venus can spark the development of new technologies

is that each of our previous missions has always produced a benefit for Earth. In the case of the Venus[...] The last European mission to Venus improved our understanding of the greenhouse effect on Earth[...] missions to Venus would not only provide additional data about Earth's closest neighbor...

OHB celebrates successful launch of the first Arctic Weather Satellite

of time and on budget that sets a new standard in earth observation. Together with our teams and our[...] - AWS is the forerunner of a potential large satellite constellation for observing the Arctic The Arctic Weather Satellite[...] the Arctic and thus collect important data to tackle climate...

Antwerp Space awarded a contract for the realisation of the LaRa instrument for ExoMars 2020

for the LaRa experiment at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB).  The second ExoMars mission[...] European. LaRa, a Belgian experiment conceived by a scientific team from the Royal Observatory of Belgium[...] ability to deliver high precision instruments for world-class scientific missions”,...

Space Encounter: Bremen consolidating its “City of Space” reputation as the host of the IAC 2018

a threatening level At IAC, we want to focus on earth observation and exploration. I am convinced that both[...] and environmental pollution have reached a threatening level. Earth observation satellites can help us to detect[...] of what earth observation systems can do. Yet, there are many,...

Europe’s weather satellites MTG taking shape

specifically to meet the high requirements of optical GEO satellites for Earth observation and is being used[...] as short-term forecasts. Four MTG imager satellites have been designed for the imaging mission and two MTG[...] sounder satellites for the sounding mission. The MTG program is a joint...

OHB to construct a pioneering spacecraft constellation to capture gravitational waves

LISA Artifical impression of the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) observatory. ©OHB Paris[...] / Bremen, 17 June 2025 - All eyes on LISA – the first space-based observatory dedicated to explore[...] constellation of three spacecraft that will fly in a triangular formation trailing the Ea...

PLATO: OHB reaching for the stars

. PLATO is a satellite-based observatory for use in space to detect and conduct research into exoplanets[...] have completed two preparatory studies for the PLATO mission. Under an ESA study, OHB worked closely[...] step forward. In order to achieve the required quality of the scientific observati...

Milestones

in weightless conditions. © OHB OHB contributed 14 research units to the German-Russian MIR 92 mission. © NASA[...] flights and contributions to the major space missions of the time Spacelab, D2 and MIR 92. „Something[...] detector and the MITA research satellite. In addition, payloads and...