OHB SE at the ILA Berlin Air Show

., includes a model of a Galileo-FOC* satellite for the European satellite navigation system. Two Galileo-FOC[...] * satellites developed and built by OHB System AG were successfully launched on May 24, 2016 with a Sojus[...] in the satellite missions Hispasat 36-W-1, EDRS-C and Heinrich Hertz. OHB...

Luxembourg – a small country that plays a big role in space

AIS (Automatic Information System) ship positioning data. Satellites operated by the OHB partner company Orbcomm[...] , the satellite operator SES from Luxembourg and the US investment company Promus Ventures, are also involved. I’m[...] receive the AIS data and pass it on to the data processing...

The crisis makes the need for space technology more obvious

. Satellite systems are essential for many industries and thus bring added value to the economy which is many[...] order additional Galileo satellites with funds from the current financial framework in order to further[...] and stand their ground. Those who can or must work from home make use of...

From SpaceX to the OHB Supervisory Board. An interview with Dr. Hans Königsmann

complex movements and processes. This simulation software to test the satellite on the ground[...] (ZARM) and was responsible for the technical programme management of the BremSat small satellite project[...] , which was realised in close cooperation with OHB.The satellite was launched into space...

Obituary for Ulrich Schulz

propulsion system that could universally switch to control other systems on board. The ship was launched[...] and responsibility for the development, construction, and operation of OHB’s first small satellites such as SAFIR[...] successfully. Even in his private life, Ulrich Schulz enjoyed...

OHB facilitating astronomical research

confined to the ground. Airborne observatories and telescopes placed in space provide access to wavelength[...] research with numerous projects aimed at providing ever better tools for data collection. Ground telescopes[...] instruments is one of the OHB Group's core skills. The range of...

Space Encounter: How OHB's IPO led to greater transparency

with satellite systems. As a result of the IPO, we created a holding structure within which further activities[...] Officer of OHB SE since 2000 and of OHB System AG since 2011. Marco Fuchs is married and has two children[...] presents itself. One option is to finance growth from equity or...

Space Encounter: The Henry Ford moment in spaceflight

such as protecting the Earth and providing connectivity from space using swarms of small satellites. However[...] -quality satellites, also mass-produced in high volumes at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional[...] about complex and expensive over-engineering, but about launching small...

Space Encounter: Mars is not our rescue ship

with satellite programmes such as the European Earth observation mission Copernicus. The CO2M mission, which OHB[...] , for decades now, satellites have been built not only at OHB but also at space companies all over the world[...] , for instance, and thus to locate the polluters very specifically....

Space Encounter: Europe is building an infrastructure of findings with Copernicus

major satellite-based space programme alongside the Galileo navigation system. The satellites[...] that Copernicus links satellite-based Earth observation instruments with data sources on the ground, on water[...] from above. When mankind looks down on the planet from a great height with Earth...