Small but powerful: Microsatellite ESAIL gets ready for launch

integrated system test, which has demonstrated that the satellite complies with the mission profile[...] is carrying an AIS payload. AIS stands for Automatic Identification System and is a mandatory international[...] communications system for navigation pursuant to the provisions of the SOLAS...

Detective work on the oceans

entrusted LuxSpace with the SIMMO II (System for Intelligent Maritime Monitoring II) research[...] with scientists at the University of Economics in Poznan (Poland), a system for analyzing marine data based[...] detect such situations. What can SIMMO II contribute to this analysis?   Miguel...

Dusty business: Why lunar dust poses a special challenge

in California in the USA before joining Kayser-Threde in Munich (part of OHB System AG since 2014) as the first[...] System AG, explains how astronauts and equipment can be protected from harmful particles and what options[...] for airlock systems are being investigated. Another approach is to...

Space Encounter: We are running out of time

Executive Officer of OHB SE since 2000 and of OHB System AG since 2011. Marco Fuchs is married and has two[...] and the availability of the necessary technologies and carrier systems, between 31,000 and 1.8 million of these probes[...] . The climate is a highly complex system formed by countless...

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

SE since 2000 and of OHB System AG since 2011. Marco Fuchs is married and has two children. More articles: [...] such as the Galileo navigation system. Yet, new markets will develop around these classic forms of space flight[...] the data collected by the Copernicus European Earth observation sys...

Ship ahoy! How LuxSpace uses AIS messages to monitor worldwide shipping traffic

. This company is responsible for processing the AIS (Automatic Information System) signals emitted by ships all[...] surveillance. This is because conventional surveillance systems, with which authorities control their territory[...] reconnaissance system. We. Create. Space. Read more SAR-Lupe...

#DestinationVenus Part 8: On a flying visit to Earth's closest neighbour

to slow down on their way to the centre of the solar system. © ESA #DestinationVenus Exploration[...] on the way to their final destinations in the centre of our solar system. At the same time, the probes[...] and thermal system for the mission under subcontract to Thales Alenia Space. Exciting...

Space Encounter: Mars is not our rescue ship

up. He has been Chief Executive Officer of OHB SE since 2000 and of OHB System AG since 2011. Marco Fuchs[...] to understanding the Earth system as a whole. Climate change is man-made The events of the past few months have[...] planet in our solar system. This is not going to happen. The dream of...

Great visions with small satellites

Coordinator at OHB System AG to join OHB’s Swedish subsidiary OHB Sweden, where he and Fredrik Sjöberg form[...] . As I previously worked as Copernicus Coordinator at OHB System AG in Oberpfaffenhofen and lived in Munich[...] system) knowledge also includes the formation flight and rendezvous...

Space Encounter: Why the exploration of space makes sense, but the colonisation of other planets does not

that his parents had built up. He has been Chief Executive Officer of OHB SE since 2000 and of OHB System AG since[...] , our solar system, the Earth and thus also we humans came into being and developed over the course[...] our solar system since 2013. However, there are far less distant objects...