OHB SE

operating 1,001–5,000 employees Public Company

Develops and manufactures satellite systems for navigation, Earth observation, telecommunications, and reconnaissance, and produces aerospace structures and launcher components

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OHB SE is a German space and technology group headquartered in Bremen, operating across three business segments: Space Systems, Aerospace, and Digital. The Space Systems division develops, builds, and operates satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications, science, and reconnaissance, including the Galileo navigation constellation and Meteosat Third Generation weather satellites. The Aerospace segment, centered on subsidiary MT Aerospace, manufactures structural components and fuel tanks for the Ariane 6 launcher. The Digital segment handles satellite ground systems, operations, cybersecurity, and geospatial data services. Founded in 1981, OHB holds prime contracts for the SARah reconnaissance satellite system, the PLATO exoplanet observatory, the CO2M emissions monitoring mission, and the RAMSES asteroid mission.

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Ariane 6 Structures

Fuel tanks and metallic structural components for the Ariane 6 launch vehicle

CO2M

Copernicus satellite mission to monitor anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions

EnMAP

Hyperspectral imaging satellite for environmental monitoring

Galileo Navigation Satellites

Navigation satellite constellation for the European Union's global positioning system

Meteosat Third Generation (MTG)

Next-generation geostationary weather satellites for EUMETSAT

PLATO

Space observatory to detect and characterize exoplanets via transit photometry

SARah

Synthetic aperture radar reconnaissance satellite system for the German armed forces

SmallGEO Platform

Modular geostationary satellite bus for telecommunications and other missions

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