17.10.2016
OHB SE DE0005936124
DGAP-News: OHB SE: Antwerp Space awarded a contract for the realisation of the LaRa instrument for ExoMars 2020
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OHB SE: Antwerp Space awarded a contract for the realisation of the LaRa
instrument for ExoMars 2020
17.10.2016 / 10:22
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Antwerp Space awarded a contract for the realisation of the LaRa instrument
for ExoMars 2020
Antwerp Space N.V., a subsidiary of the listed space and technology group
OHB SE (Prime Standard, ISIN: DE0005936124), signed a contract with ESA for
supplying the instrument called LaRa (Lander Radioscience) to fly to Mars
on board the ExoMars 2020 mission.
ExoMars is the space programme consisting of two missions to orbit and land
on Mars, executed in cooperation by ESA and Roskosmos, the Russian space
agency. The first mission called ExoMars 2016, consisting of an orbiter and
a lander, was launched on 14 March 2016 and is scheduled to land on Mars
with its decent-module on Wednesday, 19th of October. The second ExoMars-
spacecraft is scheduled for a launch in July 2020. It includes a surface
platform that will actually land on the planet and a rover that will
explore the martian surface.
The scientific payload integrated to the surface platform will consist of
several instruments thereof two European. LaRa, a Belgian experiment
conceived by a scientific team from the Royal Observatory of Belgium is one
of the two European instruments selected for the mission. It consists of a
sophisticated communication equipment transmitting from Mars to Earth. The
analysis of the radio signals characteristics received on Earth will enable
the scientists to derive the scientific data. It will be the first time
that Belgian equipment will land on the surface of Mars.
LaRa will deliver the most high-precision measurement of the Red Planet's
orientation and rotation, helping to understand better its internal
structure. It will also be able to investigate the influence of the
redistribution of masses, such as the migration of ice from the polar caps
to the atmosphere, and its impact on the rotation of Mars.
"We are very proud that the realisation of the first Belgian instrument to
ever land on the surface of Mars has been entrusted to Antwerp Space. We
are thrilled to participate in this ambitious endeavour and look forward to
the scientific results LaRa will provide. This contract is also a testimony
to Antwerp Space' know-how and our engineers ability to deliver high
precision instruments for world-class scientific missions", says Roberto
Aceti, Managing Director of Antwerp Space N.V.
"LaRa will help us to understand why our sister planet Mars has not evolved
similarly to Earth. Mars' internal structure may still be hot enough to
contain a liquid core. The deep interior of a planet can be measured by its
rotation. An everyday example of the influence of the physical state of the
interior on the rotation is that raw (liquid) and cooked (solid) eggs
rotate differently. LaRa will allow us to observe the rotation and
orientation of Mars and therewith identify its core and evolution. I look
forward to receiving the data", says Véronique Dehant, Team Coordinator for
the LaRa experiment at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB).
The second ExoMars mission with the LaRa-instrument onboard set off 2020
towards our neighbour planet. For ExoMars 2020 OHB will also design the so-
called Carrier, which will bring the rover to Mars. In addition, OHB is
responsible for a couple of subsystems e.g. the SPDS (sample preparation
and distribution system) inside the Mars rover. LaRa will then be
operational for more than a year, allowing a sufficient collection of
science data.
Please see more information here:
http://www.ohb.de/tl_files/ohb/pdf/broschueren/OHB%20System/
OHB_System_ExoMars_2015.pdf
Contact:
Investor Relations
Martina Lilienthal
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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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