OHB Italia developed an innovative mechanism for operating the closure cap to protect satellite instruments, it allows multiple closing/opening cycles of the instruments lid using a mobile cover actuated by a gearmotor. This cover will be in closed position before launch and up to the arrival of the satellite on…...
Top-Class Clean Room
“Top-Class Clean Room” – stated yesterday the President of OHB Italia referring to our new Manufacturing CR. Thanks to the investment of our shareholder, the old Clean Room was completely dismantled and replaced in less than four months, with a much larger and more modern facility. The new Clean Room…...
FLYEYE Telescope and SUTED Project: the Solution for Space Debris
The MEO (Medium Earth Orbit) belt and in particular the region where the Global Navigation Satellites are orbiting, is hosting assets of primary importance for our everyday life like the Galileo constellation and also, at the same time, a certain number of resident or transient debris which could be a…...
Excuse me, the direction for the Sun? On the left, after the asteroids’ belt…
We were imaging the new ESA Sun explorer Solar Orbiter, with Metis (the Multi-Wavelength Coronagraph) on board, travelling into deep space looking for the Sun to capture the secrets of its full corona. Just one year ago, on 10th February 2020, Solar Orbiter was launched from Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA).…...
