#EngineeringOurEarth Part 5: How OHB has been working on the subject of geoengineering in 2021

spacecraft would have to be positioned between the Sun and the Earth. © NASA Geoengineering Future[...] 15. December 2021 "I still believe that geoengineering is not a magic cure-all" Reducing emissions[...] is the primary objective in the fight against climate change – but geoengineering could...

#EngineeringOurEarth Part 4: How TU Delft contributes to the geoengineering consortium established by OHB

concepts for space-based geoengineering. Geoengineering Future 27. May 2021 "To decide whether[...] or not to implement geoengineering, we need facts" Political decisions on the subject of geoengineering must be based[...] students and supervises two student projects contributing to the geoengine...

#EngineeringOurEarth Part 1: Why OHB is conducting research on geoengineering

. © NASA Geoengineering Future 15. January 2021 "We have not lived in nature for a long time" Humankind[...] of the change OHB recently completed a study on the subject of geoengineering and another one is already[...] to conduct a study on geoengineering? Tomas Hamann: In February 2019, OHB...

#EngineeringOurEarth Part 3: What is geoengineering?

© OHB Geoengineering Future 10. March 2021 What is geoengineering? What methods[...] are there? And is geoengineering the solution to climate change? Climate change exists and humans are causing it – there has been[...] "geoengineering". But what does that mean exactly? In the literal sense, geoe...

#EngineeringOurEarth Part 6: Why framing matters when communicating about geoengineering

Geoengineering Future 25. February 2022 "The more diverse the knowledge base is, the more framing[...] -founded consortium on geoengineering together with philosopher Prof. Dr. Dr. Norman Sieroka, who teaches[...] about climate change and geoengineering in particular. Why is it difficult to...

#EngineeringOurEarth Part 2: Why geoengineering is becoming a topic in climate research

To prevent climate change from crossing certain tipping points, geoengineering may eventually[...] become unavoidable. Geoengineering Future 22. January 2021 "Geoengineering is becoming[...] – but geoengineering may still be necessary in order to avoid tipping points in climate development Prof....

EnMAP: The data specialists

at the German Geoscience Center Potsdam A satellite must be developed, built and operated. However[...] , the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has brought on board the German Geoscience[...] of the EnMAP mission. Saskia Förster is a geoecologist at GFZ and explains in an...

SmallGEO – A multi-purpose geostationary satellite platform

07. February 2018 Press Releases SmallGEO – A multi-purpose geostationary satellite platform[...] The new brochure “ SmallGEO – A multi-purpose geostationary satellite platform (click here to open[...] …) ” by OHB System AG provides information on the versatile SmallGEO platform for geostationary...

Exploration of the Universe Part 4 - Does it rain diamonds on the ice giants?

for more than sixty years. Herschel himself named his discovery "Georgium Sidus" - George's star - in honour[...] of the English King George III. However, this name was unacceptable to astronomers in France, which during that time[...] to the axis of rotation and does not pass through the centre...

Satellites

. The fact that Europe has discovered and entered the growth market for small geostationary satellites[...] geostationary platform (SmallGEO) for communications applications is being developed under OHB's lead management[...] under the ARTES-11 program. (© OHB System AG) The purpose was to develop...