10 questions and answers about Galileo

waiting in the Bremen Integration Hall. Galileo gives Europe its own satellite navigation system. To mark[...] : Google - Privacy & Terms Read more Galileo 17. May 2018 From the big city to the jungle The long winter[...] can also be used in the maritime and aviation sectors. If a ship is in...

What is Galileo capable of?

. These services have given rise to a market which has produced numerous more advanced applications which had[...] the entire market. Who is operating the Galileo satellites? The European Commission is the owner[...] . GSA in Prague operates the system. It markets the project commercially as...

TwoMinutesOfSpace Part 12: Asteroids - How can our Earth be protected?

© OHB / Ralf Becker TwoMinutesOfSpace Hera 18. June 2020 #TwoMinutesOfSpace Part 12: Asteroids[...] for Asteroid Day on June 30th. Was an asteroid impact really responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs[...] Life on Mars and Venus? - Part 6 of #TwoMinutesOfSpace Season 2 with Carsten Borowy...

There’s quite a lot going on up there: space debris is becoming an ever bigger problem

The amount of space debris in orbit continues to increase. © Spacejunk3D, LLC 06. March 2019[...] and the contribution OHB is making to reducing it. Space junk – why do we even care about it? Isn’t it far enough away[...] ? Dr. Charlotte Bewick: Space debris, human made junk in orbit, can pose a...

We.OHB. Part 9: A motivator of junior staff with a soft spot for black holes

There are hardly any computer specialists left on the employment market. Why did you decide to join OHB[...] more Galileo 17. May 2018 From the big city to the jungle The long winter had us in its grip. Just the right[...] of junior staff with a soft spot for black holes     Leveraging the...

We.OHB. Part 6 with Jean Lorenz, Team Leader E-AIT: Wanted! Front fighters for space projects

17. May 2018 From the big city to the jungle The long winter had us in its grip. Just the right time to take[...] We.OHB 21. June 2019 We.OHB. - Career as a space pioneer Wanted! Front fighters for space projects[...] for our efforts to embark on missions to the moon and Mars in the future. At an...

Billiards in space - DART and Hera

Encounter 27. June 2018 Only space technology can protect the world from asteroids Marco Fuchs, CEO of OHB[...] impacts seems literally far away. However, events such as the Tunguska explosion on 30 June 1908[...] : Earth’s orbit is getting cluttered Read more Pia Bausch TwoMinutesOfSpace 18. June...

Become a space pioneer by joining European space company OHB

world marks a radical change in your daily routine. New challenges, new faces, new requirements[...] career. In this respect, the now traditional “Girls’ Day”, which the Group organizes, merely marks[...] upside down. Read more Galileo 17. May 2018 From the big city to the jungle The long winter...

OHB SE at the ILA Berlin Air Show

aerospace innovations will be on display at the ExpoCenter Airport in Schönefeld from June 1 through 4, 2016[...] from SES and ESA for the development of the satellite platform in March. “Electra” is based on the modular SmallGEO[...] on the European deployment of the Dream Chaser known as...

Space Encounter: It is only when we view our planet from space that we realize how valuable the earth is.

© OHB Space Encounter ISS 14. June 2018 Space Encounter A column by Marco Fuchs: thoughts about[...] is June 14, 2018. I admit that I am really thrilled when I see how German astronaut Alexander Gerst[...] mission. Personal details: Born in 1962, Marco Fuchs studied law in Berlin, Hamburg and New...

Muscle work in space: Training plan à la OHB for Alexander Gerst

on the market. However, this does not mean that the small device can simply be taken into space as stringent[...] work? MyotonPRO is equipped with a flat ended cylindrical probe that is placed perpendicular on a pre-marked skin[...] -board session has been conducted in June, Alexander Gerst’s...

The colonization of Mars will still have to be awaited

think so. A sitcom, a kind of jungle camp in space? That would be horrific. This is the one great vision[...] doesn’t exist in isolation, as a lonely microbe. The emergence of life always marks the genesis[...] Humans on Mars. Futurologist Matthias Horx assumes that several decades will pass...

We.OHB. Part 8: Our work is a bit like reading a glass ball.

17. May 2018 From the big city to the jungle The long winter had us in its grip. Just the right time to take[...] in this field. Obviously, I was particularly inspired my compatriot Professor Maria Skłodowska-Curie, who[...] for our efforts to embark on missions to the moon and Mars in the...

Space Encounter: The new Cold War in space: Here's how it affects the succession of the ISS

© OHB Space Encounter Human Spaceflight Exploration A column by Marco Fuchs: thoughts about time[...] sector. After the end of the European-Russian Mars mission ExoMars, the end of launches with the Russian[...] shrill and martial. He had alternately threatened to deorbit or shut down the ISS....

Small but powerful: Microsatellite ESAIL gets ready for launch

part of the value-added chain in the microsatellite market. For me, LxS always stood out[...] and operational costs. Another important aspect is the shorter time to market, which means that microsatellites[...] . Microsatellites are intended to fill a specific market niche that is characterised by...

Detective work on the oceans

already very eventful life upside down. Read more Galileo 17. May 2018 From the big city to the jungle[...] 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 ...

We.OHB - Part 10: Empathy goes without saying – now more than ever

. Otherwise, I am happily married and have a fulfilling relationship with my wife. Another important thing[...] the last 37 years When Anna-Maria Kollenbrandt entered the foyer of OHB’s headquarters in Bremen on the day[...] to me because of the mix of technology and management elements,” is how M...

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[...] the last 37 years When Anna-Maria Kollenbrandt entered the foyer of OHB’s headquarters in Bremen on the day[...] to me because of the mix of technology and management elements,” is how Marek Dittmar...

From the self-made satellite to the OHB team

to the jungle The long winter had us in its grip. Just the right time to take a look at a job in the tropics

“We want to inspire young people for aerospace jobs at OHB”

that we are challenged by a basically void labour market yet continue to receive many unsolicited applications[...] that we are obliged to address the topic of demographics in a German environment marked by a very tense employment[...] market in our industry. And in view of the fact that for...

Exploration of the Universe Part 3 - Is it possible to land on the gas giants in our solar system?

to the invention of the first telescopes, it marked the outer boundary of our solar system. Like Jupiter, Saturn[...] composition. A further NASA probe is currently orbiting the planet: Juno (also known as “Jupiter Polar Orbiter[...] as its shadow must be avoided. Up until June 2018, the probe...

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

this basic research? Emerging-market countries in particular have a strong interest as scientific telescopes[...] 2019 A mission to Venus will help us to better understand the Earth Marco Fuchs, CEO of OHB[...] with the development of an atmospheric mission. Read more Exploration 25. June 2021...

Is there life on Mars?

© ESA/D. Ducros Exploration ExoMars 16. April 2018 Is there life on Mars?  WHY THE EXOMARS[...] AS LITTLE GREEN MEN. AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. ANDREAS WINKLER FROM OHB SYSTEM AG Mars has been capturing[...] the questions that the next missions to Mars will be endeavoring to answer.   You can find out...

Milestones

later. She employed the first engineers and experts, thus laying the foundations for growth. This marked[...] satellites, with which OHB entered the telecommunications market, were developed. OHB harnessed the potential[...] offered by the growing telematics market with the global positioning of...

50 years after the first moon landing: Interview with former astronaut Thomas Reiter

more Galileo 17. May 2018 From the big city to the jungle The long winter had us in its grip. Just the right[...] of the decade. Let’s go one step further: how realistic and, above all, sensible is it to travel to Mars? Reiter[...] , for example. There’s no protective magnetic field on the journey...