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The #Launch of LARES2 is scheduled for the morning of 13th July at 13:13CET from the European Spaceport of #Kourou in French Guiana.   It is the main scientific #payload of the VEGA C Maiden Flight for which, under coordination of #ASI-Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, #OHBItalia built the LARES2 platform system and the release mechanisms. Scope of the #mission is to…...

FIVE more days to go and LARES 2 will be launched on the #VegaC maiden flight. Final preparatory stages are running: on July the 2nd, the Satellite was inserted the into the launcher’s nose cone and soon it will be transported to the ramp for #integration on top of the #rocket.   The #launch is scheduled…...

Institutional visit at OHB Italia Headquarters of General Luigi Francesco De Leverano, the Military Advisor to the Italian Prime Minister and Secretary of the “Inter-ministerial Committee for space and aerospace-related policies” (#COMINT). During his stay in Milan the General visited the laboratories, the clean rooms, the integration and manufacturing facilities and…...

Why is the universe accelerating so much its expansion? What kind of phenomenon is behind this expansionary rush? What are the dark matter and the dark energy composed of? What is changing the shape of billions of galaxies outside the Milky Way? All these questions can be answered, once in…...

PRISMA Satellite, realized for #ASI – Agenzia Spaziale Italiana thanks to a consortium lead by #OHBItalia as #PrimeContractor, looks at the Varese Lake, one the smallest and one of the shallowest lakes south of the #Alps. The adaptive #spectralbands in the red/near-infrared region, made it possible to produce the chlorophyll concentration map present in the euphotic layer…...