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DGAP-News: OHB SE: ESA commissions OHB with study on HERA asteroid mission / OHB Group expands its activities in the field of earth protection
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OHB SE: ESA commissions OHB with study on HERA asteroid mission / OHB Group
expands its activities in the field of earth protection
06.08.2018 / 15:19
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Bremen - OHB System AG, a subsidiary of the Bremen-based space and
technology group OHB SE, has been selected by the European Space Agency ESA
as prime contractor for a study on the asteroid mission HERA. The contract
has a volume of EUR 4.5 million and expands the OHB Group's ongoing
activities in the area of protecting Earth from space threats.
The aim of the HERA study is to perform detailed mission definition a
technical design of a probe that will fly to the twin asteroid "Didymos".
The spacecraft will analyze its surface and sub-surface physical properties
and investigate its dynamics in the aftermath of a hypervelocity impact. The
HERA mission is the European contribution to a joint but staggered planetary
defence mission with NASA. HERA is to investigate in particular the impact
crater on the smaller of the two asteroids (called "Didymoon"), which NASA's
DART spacecraft will have left behind with a previously mission to be
launched in 2021.
According to the scientists, the impact will slow Didymoon down by about
half a millimetre per second. HERA is to provide detailed information on
Didymoon's orbit changes and relate them to the asteroid composition, as
well as surface and interior structure. With this experiment a viable method
to deflect asteroids from their collision course with Earth will be fully
validated and the results of this international collaboration could be
extrapolated from Didymos to other asteroids. The launch of the HERA mission
is currently planned for end 2023.
Contact:
Investor Relations
Martina Lilienthal
Tel.: +49 421 - 2020-720
Fax: +49 421 - 2020-613
E-Mail: [email protected]
Corporate Communications
Günther Hörbst
Tel.: +49 421 - 2020-9438
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
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