After the completion of the feasibility study started two years ago, OHB Italia is now proud to announce the agreement for the spacecraft implementation phase. The mission target is to provide new insight in the evolution of comets and the origins of our Solar System. Paris, December 15th, 2022 –…...
OHB ITALIA TAKES PART TO THE IRIDE SATELLITE CONSTELLATION TO PROTECT THE EARTH
A unique, innovative and all-Italian constellation designed to observe from space what is happening on our Planet Rome 3rd/12/2022 – Today ESA (European Space Agency) and OHB Italia have signed an important contract for the development of an initial batch of 12 satellites (including the relative Flight Operations Segment) to…...
A BRAND NEW NETWORK OF FLYEYE TELESCOPES FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT
Four telescopes, financed in record-time through PNRR funds by the Italian Space Agency, will be the new space sentinels with all-Italian technology that will survey the sky for space debris The Italian Space Agency and OHB Italia signed today a contract for delivering four Flyeye Telescopes dedicated to Space Surveillance…...
IXPE: the Satellite that will investigate the high Energies of the Universe
Milan, 09th.12.2021 – Today at 07.00 a.m. (CET time) the IXPE (Imaging X Ray Polarimetry Explorer) satellite was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. IXPE, the new space explorer with three telescopes on board, is now in orbit with the challenging targets of observing the universe at high energies…...
Giant Magellan Telescope: new contract for protecting the world’s largest mirrors
Bremen/Milan, October 4, 2021. OHB Italia signed with OHB Digital Connect, both subsidiaries of the of the space group OHB SE, a contract for the development of a cover system for seven of the world’s largest mirrors on the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). The complex mechanical covers are critical for…...
