Press Releases

2010-02-24

OHB awarded contract for overall system management for the definition phase of the DEOS German robotics mission

The Space Agency of the German Aerospace Center has assigned OHB-System AG overall system management for the definition phase (Phase B) of a future German Orbital Servicing Mission (DEOS)...
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2010-01-26

OHB-System and ESA signing Galileo contract

The Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation related activities, Mr René Oosterlinck, and the CEO of OHB-System AG, Berry Smutny, have today signed the contract for the development and construction of 14 Galileo satellites...
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2010-01-15

MT Aerospace qualifies world’s largest overwrapped satellite propellant tank for Alphabus

The European Space Agency ESA and the Alphabus Joint Project Team successfully completed the Qualification Review of one of the world’s largest yet lightest satellite tanks ever built, a new generation of bi-propellant tanks...
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2010-01-07

OHB and SSTL selected for the construction of 14 Galileo navigation satellites.

Vice-President Antonio Tajani today announced that the European Commission has selected the consortium led by OHB-System AG and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) for building and testing 14 satellites for the Galileo satellite navigation system, a programme of and funded by the European Union...
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2009-11-23

Successful Mission of Sounding Rocket TEXUS-46

On Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 the unmanned sounding rocket TEXUS-46 was launched from the Esrange launch site, Sweden, at 12:15 local time (11.15 UTC). Various experiments under ESA and/or DLR contract were on board the 12.4 meter and 2,652 kg rocket (payload mass: 373 kg).
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