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…...
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…...
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…...
OHB ITALIA as Key Player for Fondoimpresa on IlSole24Ore.com
Fondoimpresa (Interprofessional Fund of Confindustria and Cgil, Cisl, Uil for life-long and continuing education) selected OHB Italia as one of the best practices in the field of innovation and internal training investment. OHB Italia – as reported on the website ‘Ilsole24ore.com’- was able to maintain a leading position in the…...
Bilateral meeting Italy – Luxembourg on Space with OHB Italia and NAOS Satellite as main performer
Italian Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, On. Fraccaro met today in Rome the Economy Minister of Luxembourg Mr. Fayot to discuss about space activities, technological innovation and security. During the institutional discussion was underlined the important role of OHB Italia in the relationship between the two…...
Solar Orbiter is on its way and METIS was successfully switched on. Proud moment for OHB Italia
On 28th February at 04.16pm, from Darmstadt in Germany (the ESA Control Center), the multi-wavelength coronagraph METIS developed by OHB Italia was successfully switched on. Everything was fine and the instrument that will observe for the first time in human history the structure and the dynamics of the full corona, took…...
Solar Orbiter was launched with on-board coronagraph METIS realized by OHB Italia
Solar Orbiter, the new ESA Sun Explorer, developed in collaboration with NASA, was launched from Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA) on February 10th at 05.03 CET. Solar Orbiter will be the first mission to operate in extreme environment up to 500C°, providing images of the poles of the Sun at high latitude…...
Solar Orbiter: Launch to Meet Face-to-Face the Sun with OHB Italia on Board
Solar Orbiter, the new ESA Sun Explorer, developed in collaboration with NASA, will be launched from Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA) on February, 9th (one day slip from original date) at 05.03am (CET). Solar Orbiter will be the first mission to operate in extreme environment up to 500C°, providing images of…...
