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

How can the Earth be shaded from space? Students at TU Delft are currently working on mission 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...

Dusty business: Why lunar dust poses a special challenge

NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt takes soil samples on the Moon. © NASA Exploration Innovation 25. June 2021 "Lunar dust has some properties that make it particularly unpleasant" How dangerous is lunar dust for humans and equipment? And can it also be put to good use? A little dust? Maybe not a big...

We.OHB - Part 11: Checking quality with a passion

We.OHB Career 28. June 2021 We.OHB Part 11 with Viktoria Schöneich, Quality Engineer Checking quality with a passion Her mission: Checking, testing, inspecting. Recognizable by: A green lab coat. Her name: Viktoria Schöneich. In her green lab coat, the graduate aerospace engineer regularly mixes...

How the Digital Twin works at the port of Bremen

Innovation Satellites 13. July 2021 How the Digital Twin works at the port of Bremen OHB Digital Services solution helping to optimize logistics processes Digitalization is already commonplace in many aspects of logistics. Satellite data is also often used for this purpose. A good example of this...

TwoMinutesOfSpace Season 2 - Part 1: How to improve air quality with clean room technology

© OHB / Ralf Becker TwoMinutesOfSpace 21. July 2021 #TwoMinutesOfSpace Season 2 - Part 1: How to improve air quality with clean room technology Space knowledge with OHB experts Carsten Borowy and Charlotte Bewick Space pioneers Carsten Borowy and Charlotte Bewick present concentrated space...

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

© OHB Space Encounter A column by Marco Fuchs: thoughts about time and space Bezos' audacious ride into space will give new impetus to useful space technology July 21, 2021. I'm always careful with superlatives; most of the time they don't fit. But the Blue Origin crew's flight into space can't be...

Into the unknown: How Comet Interceptor will study a comet that has not yet been discovered

Comet Interceptor is to explore a comet that has remained virtually unchanged since the formation of the solar system. © ESA Exploration 29. July 2021 Into the unknown: How Comet Interceptor will study a comet that has not yet been discovered Visiting an unknown comet that has not even entered our...

TwoMinutesOfSpace Season 2 - Part 2: Comet Interceptor or How to visit an unknown comet

© OHB / Ralf Becker TwoMinutesOfSpace Exploration 18. August 2021 #TwoMinutesOfSpace Season 2 - Part 2: Comet Interceptor Space knowledge with OHB experts Carsten Borowy and Charlotte Bewick Space pioneers Carsten Borowy and Charlotte Bewick present concentrated space knowledge in...

"Spaceflight in Europe has always been different from spaceflight in America"

While commercial space applications are only just developing in Germany and Europe, they are already taking off in the USA ... © SpaceX Pioneers of Aerospace New Space Space Launcher 01. September 2021 "Spaceflight in Europe has always been different from spaceflight in America" Hans-Joerg...

Space Encounter: Mars is not our rescue ship

© OHB Space Encounter A column by Marco Fuchs: thoughts about time and space Fighting climate change: "Mars is not our rescue ship" August 27, 2021. Svenja Schulze, the German Federal Minister for the Environment, recently said during a visit to our company in Bremen that it might not be obvious at...