Welcome to OHB-System AG

OHB-System AG is a mid-size German space technology company and a subsidiary of the OHB Technology Group. OHB System AG specializes in low-orbit and geostationary small satellites for scientific research, communications and earth observation, leading-edge technologies for manned space flight, models and studies for exploring our solar system as well as reconnaissance satellites and instruments for broadband wireless transmission of reconnaissance image data for greater security and reconnaissance. 

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26.01.2010

OHB-System and ESA signing Galileo contract

The Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation related activities, Mr René Oosterlinck, and the CEO of OHB-System AG, Berry Smutny, have today signed the contract for the development and construction of 14 Galileo satellites...

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07.01.2010

OHB and SSTL selected for the construction of 14 Galileo navigation satellites.

Vice-President Antonio Tajani today announced that the European Commission has selected the consortium led by OHB-System AG and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) for building and testing 14 satellites for the Galileo satellite navigation system, a programme of and funded by the European Union...

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28.10.2009

ISS astronauts working out on the OHB “Flywheel” fitness device for the first time

On Wednesday, ESA astronaut Frank De Winne (Belgium) was the first member of the International Space Station ISS crew to use the “Flywheel”, a fitness device developed and built by Bremen-based OHB-System AG...

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