2024
- The company is growing and has 29 employees.
- The engineering team has successfully completed critical work on the Comet Interceptor project, including the design and structural analysis of the probe, as well as the assembly of its dust shield.
- Launch of the HERA mission to space.
2023
- Vít Pavelec was appointed as Managing Director.
- Engineers at OHB Czechspace have completed the preparatory phase of their own satellite SOVA as part of the Czech Republic's Ambitious Project.
- In September was held the Industry Day & Press Conference of the SOVA mission.
- NEP RocketRoll – The company has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency for a feasibility study on the use of nuclear fuel for demanding space logistics and exploration missions.
2022
- The company has 26 employees.
- SOVA - OHB Czechspace was awarded a contract by ESA for the Czech satellite mission SOVA to conduct the first phase of the Ambitious Project.
- CRYSA - New project led by OHB Czechspace for ESA to find and test materials that can whitstand extremely low temperatures.
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ISO 9001 - In December 2022 OHB Czechspace successfuly achieved international Quality Management System certification.
2021
- The company has 22 employees.
- #WomenInSTEM – 50% of space engineers hired this year are talented women.
- The GMS-T launch – OHB Czechspace has flight heritage! The GMS-T telecommunication satellite successfully launched on board of the Electron launcher operated by Rocket Lab.
- CO2M – OHB Czechspace becomes part of the team working on one of the most significant missions of the EU Copernicus programme known as CO2M (Carbon Dioxide Monitoring mission).
2020
- Hera – OHB Czechspace is awarded a contract from OHB System to supply the structural subsystem of ESA’s planetary defense mission Hera.
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PLATO – OHB Czechspace joins a consortium with INVENT to supply the Central Tube for this astronomical mission dedicated to detecting and characterizing terrestrial exoplanets suitable for life.
2019
- The company has 12 employees with the goal to double in size within the next couple of years.
- Pavel Dobeš appointed as additional Managing Director.
- The GMS-T satellite – together with its sister companies OHB Cosmos and OHB Sweden, OHB Czechspace is working for the first time in history on a space project for a private customer.
2018
- OHB Czechspace s.r.o. commences business operations in Brno, Czech Republic.
- Ariane Wyen was appointed as Managing Director.
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First contract – after two months of business operations, OHB Czechspace joins a consortium with OHB System and RHEA System and begins work on the ESA Study AMCDF „Design of Space Hardware using a CDF like methodology“.
