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OHB Italia to be part of the industrial consortium implementing the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer mission

OHB Italia, a subsidiary of the European technology and space group OHB SE, announced to be part of the industrial consortium implementing the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer mission (CIMR). Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33 %), is serving as prime contractor for the CIMR…...

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Roberto Aceti, CEO of OHB Italia, in Caserta to discuss on the future of national geopolitical scenario

CEO of OHB Italia, Ing. R. Aceti, took part on 9th October in Caserta to the strategic national conference on Space “The Universe Game- Dalla Geopolitica all’Astropolitik”, organized by the Atlantic Club of Naples, by the University of Campania L. Vanvitelli and by CIRA (Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali). Very prestigious…...

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Milestone successfully reached: Launch Locking Devices (LLDs) of MicroWave Imager (MWI) Flight Models ready to be delivered

OHB Italia reached another important milestone: ready the MWI LLDs that will fly on the MetOp-SG. They are 4 not standard Launch Locking Devices, the main structural load path for the Instrument Rotating Part (IRP) in locked configuration; The instrument mass to be locked is at launch 160 kg, LLDs…...

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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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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…...

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