2011

Today, OHB System AG and Astrium, the industrial prime contractor in the implementation of the European Data Relay Satellite System (EDRS), signed an addendum to the existing preliminary authorization to proceed (PATP) for the development and construction of a dedicated EDRS satellite...

The European Space Agency ESA and OHB System AG, an OHB company, have signed a rider to the contract for the development of the SmallGEO geostationary satellite platform today...

The new German Federal Minister of Economics Dr. Philipp Rösler (FDP) today visited OHB’s facilities in Bremen. As the minister of the federal cabinet responsible for space, he paid his first industry visit to a company active in this segment...

On April 13 and 14, talks were held at the OHB Group’s headquarters in Bremen between the Kazakh space agency Kazcosmos and representatives of space companies in Bremen including OHB-System, ZARM and the DLR Institute of Space Systems...

On Wednesday, March 16, 2011, an environmental forum on the Aral Sea was held at OHB’s headquarters. In the presence and at the initiative of the Kazakh ambassador in Germany, his excellency Dr. Nurlan Onzhanov, the forum sought to explore...

The CEO of OHB-System AG, Berry Smutny, has been suspended with immediate effect. After the General Assembly of OHB-System has voted to remove the confidence, the Supervisory Board...

On Thursday, January 13, 2011, the Norwegian daily “Aftenposten” repeatedly reported on a conversation held on October 2, 2009 between Berry Smutny, the CEO of OHB-System AG, and representatives of the US embassy, citing as its source wires sent by the US embassy in Berlin, which had entered the public domain as a result of the WikiLeaks documents...