04.04.2017
OHB SE DE0005936124
DGAP-News: OHB SE: OHB Venture Capital and LuxSpace establishing company in Luxembourg to enable sustainable life in space
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OHB SE: OHB Venture Capital and LuxSpace establishing company in Luxembourg
to enable sustainable life in space
04.04.2017 / 17:19
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Luxembourg, Munich, April 4, 2017: OHB Venture Capital GmbH, Munich, and
LuxSpace s.à r.l., Betzdorf, Luxembourg (both subsidiaries of OHB SE, Prime
Standard, ISIN DE0005936124) have today announced the establishment of a
company known as Blue Horizon s.à r.l. with registered offices in
Luxembourg. Blue Horizon will be pursuing the vision of creating the
necessary conditions for enabling sustainable life in space and for
revitalizing ravaged landscapes on the Earth by applying the technologies
and processes of life sciences.
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a close partner to OHB SE. Etienne
Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, said today at
a press conference: "The incorporation of this company in Luxembourg and its
vision are fully in line with our SpaceResources.lu initiative for promoting
the future use of space resources. In this connection, we are very pleased
to have found in OHB a strong European partner that supports our plans and
wants to play a leading role in this area in Europe. One of the most
important European sites of OHB, the third largest European space company,
is being developed in Betzdorf."
"Blue Horizon is a logical step forward in the development of our
activities. Looking forward, we see great business potential in life
sciences in space, which particularly follows OHB's practical approach of
engaging in useful space activities that benefit life on Earth," said Marco
Fuchs, CEO of OHB SE. "For this reason, it is only logical that a great deal
of expertise will flow from OHB System AG to the new company Blue Horizon
and that it will be able to start off straight away. After all, this is not
uncharted territory for us," Fuchs said during the press conference.
Blue Horizon will cooperate intensively with national and European research
institutes to develop new life science products and services for space and
Earth use. "What is really important to highlight is the fact that Blue
Horizon is not only oriented towards space but will also try to improve life
on Earth", said Dr. Thomas Görlach, Managing Director of LuxSpace. Working
together with a number of partners, Blue Horizon has developed a preliminary
concept to fight desertification using biological methods. This marks a
preliminary step towards improving living conditions in desert regions.
"This is one of the real challenges in this century," added Jochen Harms,
managing director of the newly formed company "and we want to contribute our
specific know-how using processes that we have learned from the harsh
environment on extra-terrestrial bodies. The technical expertise will be
provided by Prof. Dr. Klaus Slenzka, Chief Scientist and head of Life
Sciences at OHB System AG.
Describing the future development of Blue Horizon's activities, Slenzka
says: "In all the plans for human settlement of the Moon, Mars and beyond,
it is necessary to ensure that the conditions for human life are installed
at the destination in question. Blue Horizon will be responsible for
creating these conditions locally," he explains. A preliminary development
is already in the starting blocks: CUBEHAB will be able to create viable
living conditions on the Moon as early as in 2020. By extracting oxygen from
"lifeless" lunar rubble, it will be possible to grow plants on the Moon.
Contact for Media:
Julia Riedl
Corporate Communications
Tel: +49-8153-4002-249
Fax: +49-8153-4002-99-249
E-Mail: [email protected]
Contact for Investors and Analysts:
Martina Lilienthal
Investor Relations
Tel: +49 421 - 2020-720
Fax: +49 421 - 2020-613
E-Mail: [email protected]
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Language: English
Company: OHB SE
Karl-Ferdinand-Braun-Str. 8
28359 Bremen
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)421 2020 8
Fax: +49 (0)421 2020 613
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.ohb.de
ISIN: DE0005936124
WKN: 593612
Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated
Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Munich,
Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange
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