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OHB Italia at GAL Hassin 2020

On 4th and 5th September 2020 at the GAL Hassin international Center for Astronomic Sciences in Isnello, near Palermo, OHB Italia met the eminent Nobel Price for Physics Michel Mayor. Telescopes BU Manager, Mr. Lorenzo Cibin, together with a well-known pool of physicists and astrophysicists took part to the annual…...

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OHB System prime contractor for CO2M Mission. OHB Italia responsible for CIMR Payload

OHB System AG, a subsidiary of Bremen-based space and technology group OHB SE, has been selected by the European Space Agency ESA as prime contractor for the CO2M mission (CO2 Monitoring Mission in the Copernicus program). The order volume is more than EUR 800 million. This mission includes the Copernicus…...

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PRISMA: 27.000 images available to community – The greatest milestone of OHB Italia

The PRISMA Satellite, developed by OHB Italia together with Leonardo, is successfully orbiting since March 2019 and starting from May, 21th 2020 all the 27.000 images collected during this year are now openly available. On this subject ASI has recently decided to open the PRISMA catalogue of images to the…...

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BepiColombo: Exploring Mercury with OHB Italia and ESA

On 10th April 2020 at 6.25a.m. (CEST), the BepiColombo spacecraft (launched on 20th October 2018 from Kourou in French Guyana) will approach the Earth at the distance of only 12,700 km. It will then swing-by the Earth and get a pull towards the inner Solar System, followed by a Venus…...

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Planetary Defence and the cutting-edge Flyeye telescope of OHB Italia on Focus News

On March, 26th, channel 35 ( Focus News ), at 21.15 CET the innovative Flyeye Telescope developed from OHB Italia for ESA/ASI was presented as one of the main players of the current planetary defence plan, during a documentary directed by the famous scientific journalist Luigi Bignami....

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