23.08.2016
OHB SE DE0005936124
DGAP-News: OHB SE: OHB awarded contract by DLR Space Administration for the technological management of technologies for the Heinrich Hertz satellite mission
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OHB SE: OHB awarded contract by DLR Space Administration for the
technological management of technologies for the Heinrich Hertz satellite
mission
23.08.2016 / 11:01
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OHB System AG, a subsidiary of listed technology group OHB SE (Prime
Standard, ISIN: DE0005936124), has been awarded a contract by DLR Space
Administration to oversee numerous new communications technologies. These
technologies, designed by different industry companies and institutes, will
be integrated in the Heinrich Hertz satellite so that they can be tested in
space. The contract for satellite-side technology management is worth a
total of around EUR 10 million.
Under the national Heinrich Hertz satellite mission, DLR Space
Administration is working on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for
Economic Affairs and Energy to perform scientific tests on the new
communications technologies in orbit over an extended period of time. The
purpose is to "test the behavior of these new technologies under extreme
conditions in space," explains Dominik Lang, Director of Telecommunications
Satellites and Head of Heinrich Hertz satellite project at OHB.
This in-orbit verification process will be demonstrating the suitability of
the technologies for future satellite missions, thus substantially reducing
the risk of failure. In addition, the Heinrich Hertz mission will be
offering numerous research institutions as well as industry a platform for
conducting a multitude of scientific/technical experiments.
Under the technology management contract for the Heinrich Hertz satellite
mission, OHB is responsible for the scientific/technical aspects of the
technology orders. This entails responsibility for the technical and formal
project milestones as well as formal acceptance testing of the hardware for
integration in the Heinrich Hertz satellite. One of OHB's primary tasks is
to ensure that the interfaces of the technologies to be tested are
compatible with the Heinrich Hertz satellite.
About the Heinrich Hertz satellite mission:
The purpose of the Heinrich Hertz satellite mission is to test new types of
satellite communications technologies under real conditions in space and to
safeguard national system competence in geostationary communications
satellites. Named in honor of an important German physicist, the Heinrich
Hertz satellite is to demonstrate German skills under real conditions with
respect to platforms for geostationary satellites as well as payloads.
In this way, Heinrich Hertz will be making a crucial contribution to
advancing space technology for communications satellites. This
innovativeness is being backed by the excellent partnership forged amongst
research institutes, universities and the German space industry. The
mission offers all parties involved an opportunity for performing numerous
scientific/technical experiments in space.
In addition to the scientific/technical aspects of the mission, Heinrich
Hertz will also be providing the German Federal Ministry of Defense with
additional independent hosted payload capacity. In this connection, an
agreement was entered into in 2011 between the Federal Ministry for
Economic Affairs and Energy and the German Federal Ministry of Defense
assigning DLR responsibility for coordinating these mission components.
Contact:
Investor Relations
Martina Lilienthal
Tel.: +49 421 - 2020-720
Fax: +49 421 - 2020-613
E-Mail: [email protected]
Corporate Communications
Martin Stade
Tel.: +49 421 - 2020-620
Fax: +49 421 - 2020-9898
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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