The activities of the Earth Observation ALERT project (Next Generation Satellite Processing Chain for Rapid Civil Alerts) from the Horizon 2020 program from the European Union have officially started! This project regards the development of key Earth Observation technologies for rapid civil alerts. The goal is to develop the next-generation…...
EUCLID mission: contract signed for the realization of two scientific instruments
OHB Italia was awarded a contract from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) for the realization of two scientific instruments, the VIS (visual Imager) and NISP (near-infrared spectrometrer and photometer) instruments for the phase D of the Euclid mission. Euclid is an ESA medium class astronomy and astrophysics space mission. It was selected…...
Prime Contractorship for OHB Italia in the frame of ESA BIOMASS Programme
In the last weeks of 2017, OHB Italia signed a contract with Airbus Defence and Space for the procurement of the BIOMASS structure platform. The BIOMASS satellite, due for launch in 2021, belongs to the 7th of ESA Earth Exploration missions and will provide essential information on carbon storage in global…...
Detection of new particles by AMS-02
The first clue of a new physics, i.e. the existence of particles which were unknown so far, just came from the stars. An abundance of particles was measured by AMS-02, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, instrument from the CERN in Ginevra, which has been installed outside the International Space Station to…...
