OHB Czechspace is taking on the difficult task of assembling the Comet Interceptor satellite's dust shield, which should protect the satellite from dangerous comet dust that could irreversibly damage it.
SmartBeam project is a new technology development proposed by OHB Czechspace funded by FIRST! which is an initiative of the ESA STS (Space Transportation) Future Launchers Preparatory Programme (FLPP). The objective of the work is to develop new affordable and reliable manufacturing method for Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) tube with integrated HMS (Health Monitoring System).
The seventh edition of the biggest space industry event in the Czech Republic will take a place from 4th to 10th November 2024 in Prague and Brno. Meet OHB Czechspace and find out more about our projects.
In order to make space safe and sustainable, the European Space Agency (ESA) accepted the Zero Debris approach by 2030. The goal is to significantly reduce the amount of debris in Lunar and Earth orbits by 2030 applicable for all programmes and missions in the future. OHB Czechspace works on the structural aspects of the design evolution and provides general systems engineering support.
On July 12th, launch day of the Czech Rocket Challenge will take a place at the airport in Medlanky, Brno. The competition is organized for high school and university students who design and build their own rockets. This Friday, more than 20 teams will launch their rockets. Meet us there!
So far, spacecrafts have only encountered and explored short-period comets. However, these comets have made multiple trips around the Sun, altering their original appearance. Consequently, ESA has chosen the Comet Interceptor mission to study a pristine comet. Such a comet, making its first approach to the inner Solar System, promises invaluable insights into its early stages.
Within the NEP RocketRoll project, we have successfully completed the third milestone, the main focus of which was to secure the NEP concept has preliminary architecture of the nuclear fission reactor, thermoelectric conversion cycle and other components.
Guided tours of space companies and an afternoon programme at the Brno Observatory. Don't miss the Brno Space Days on 5.-6. March. In the morning 5.3. we invite you to the OHB Czechspace Open Day.
OHB Czechspace is taking on the difficult task of assembling the Comet Interceptor satellite's dust shield, which should protect the satellite from dangerous comet dust that could irreversibly damage it.
SmartBeam project is a new technology development proposed by OHB Czechspace funded by FIRST! which is an initiative of the ESA STS (Space Transportation) Future Launchers Preparatory Programme (FLPP). The objective of the work is to develop new affordable and reliable manufacturing method for Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) tube with integrated HMS (Health Monitoring System).
The seventh edition of the biggest space industry event in the Czech Republic will take a place from 4th to 10th November 2024 in Prague and Brno. Meet OHB Czechspace and find out more about our projects.
In order to make space safe and sustainable, the European Space Agency (ESA) accepted the Zero Debris approach by 2030. The goal is to significantly reduce the amount of debris in Lunar and Earth orbits by 2030 applicable for all programmes and missions in the future. OHB Czechspace works on the structural aspects of the design evolution and provides general systems engineering support.
On July 12th, launch day of the Czech Rocket Challenge will take a place at the airport in Medlanky, Brno. The competition is organized for high school and university students who design and build their own rockets. This Friday, more than 20 teams will launch their rockets. Meet us there!
So far, spacecrafts have only encountered and explored short-period comets. However, these comets have made multiple trips around the Sun, altering their original appearance. Consequently, ESA has chosen the Comet Interceptor mission to study a pristine comet. Such a comet, making its first approach to the inner Solar System, promises invaluable insights into its early stages.
Within the NEP RocketRoll project, we have successfully completed the third milestone, the main focus of which was to secure the NEP concept has preliminary architecture of the nuclear fission reactor, thermoelectric conversion cycle and other components.
Guided tours of space companies and an afternoon programme at the Brno Observatory. Don't miss the Brno Space Days on 5.-6. March. In the morning 5.3. we invite you to the OHB Czechspace Open Day.
Last year, OHB Czechspace sponsored AstroPi Hackathon Brno, en event organised by students of the St. Cyril and Methodius Grammar School together with Jan Spratek.
The sixth edition of the biggest space industry event in the Czech Republic will take a place from 25th November to 2nd December 2023 in Brno and Prague. Meet OHB Czechspace and find out more about our projects.
Within the NEP RocketRoll project, we have successfully completed the second milestone, the main focus of which was the finalisation of the existing technologies study and the preparation of NEP safety considerations for space travels.
Last week we celebrated the five-year anniversary of OHB Czechspace. We got together in our offices, cut the cake and celebrated the progress OHB Czechspace has made in these five years.
Scientists from Argentina, Belgium, Japan, Slovakia, Spain and Taiwan have expressed their support for the Czech SOVA space mission. The mission is led by OHB Czechspace in cooperation with the Czech Academy of Sciences and aims to send the largest Czech satellite into orbit in 2028 to collect data in the middle and upper parts of atmosphere.
Consortium led by OHB Czechspace as the prime contractor supported by CTU, IRS and OHB System passed their first project Milestone of the Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) program, so called “RocketRoll”, this week.
On July 14th, final of the Czech Rocket Challenge will take a place at the airport in Medlanky, Brno. The competition is organized for high school and university students who design and build their own rockets. This Friday, more than 20 teams will launch their rockets. You can also look forward to two accompanying launches and the launch of the Sherpa rocket made by the Czech Rocket Society. OHB Czechspace is a partner of this society.
At the beginning of this year, European Space Agency's backup astronaut Ales Svoboda accepted invitation to a panel discussion at OHB Czechspace. The discussion for students of aeronautics and astronautics of BUT was held in the form of an interview, which was led by Ondrej Slajs, one of our employees.
If you are a space enthusiast and would like to go on a trip to the Pardubice Region, then we have a tip for you!
From 27 April to 31 May, an exhibition of space gems will take place at the Choltice Castle, where you can see model of our satellite SOVA.
Flights to distant areas of our Solar System, transportation of heavy cargos, human bases on the Moon or Mars. These and other future space missions could benefit from new propulsion system based on nuclear power. The possibilities of its use are now being investigated by the ESA, which launched several feasibility studies in March, and one of them is led by us.
The Czech Rocket Society is the first student organisation dealing with cosmonautics and rockets in the Czech Republic. They have an impressive portfolio of activities, and we are happy to announce that we became their partners.
The 17th European Conference on Spacecraft Structures Materials and Environmental Testing will take place on 28 to 30 March 2023 in Toulouse, France. We are very pleased that two of our papers were selected to be presented there.
At the end of February, the SOVA consortium led by the Prime contractor, OHB Czechspace, has successfully held the MDR milestone (Mission Definition Review) at the end of Phase 0 and was granted to continue to Phase A!
Vít Pavelec is the new Managing Director of OHB Czechspace since March 2023. He succeeds the founding director Ariane Wyen, who will continue to work for the OHB Group. Vít Pavelec has over twenty years of experience in the leadership positions within several international companies, mainly in the aerospace industry. He aims to focus on further development of OHB Czechspace and the launch of its own products for the satellite and launch vehicle market.
We invite you to the Career Fair at the Brno Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Are you a student of Brno University of Technology passionate about space industry? Are you interested in woking in the field of Aerospace Engineering but lack practical information about work opportunities in such field?
Guided tours of space companies and an afternoon programme at the Brno Observatory. Don't miss the Brno Space Day on Wednesday 1 March. In the morning we invite you to the OHB Czechspace open day.
On Saturday, 11 February, we celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science. On this occasion, we asked a few questions to our colleague Ludivine Leger, who works as a Structural Analysis Engineer in the OHB Czechspace team.
Since January 2023, OHB Czechspace is a new member of the consortium of the Czech ambitious mission LVICE² led by esc Aerospace. The cooperation was kicked off by a workshop of the consortium partners on Monday, January 30, in Brno. We were glad to meet there with representatives from esc Aerospace, Stellar Exploration and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the CTU in Prague.
Ensuring the quality and high standard of our services are the fundamental requirements for successful cooperation with our partners and customers. This is now proven by the internationally accepted ISO9001 Quality Management System certification, which we successfully passed in December 2022.
The aim of the new CRYSA project is to find and test materials that can withstand extremely low temperatures of minus 270 degrees Celsius. The project is being led by Czech company OHB Czechspace, which has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA).
How is the selection process for an astronaut? What's the hardest part? What are the chances of looking into space? We invite students to a discussion with Ales Svoboda, a backup astronaut of the European Space Agency.
To improve climate models and prediction of extreme weather such as heavy rain, storms, strong wind or tornadoes, is one of the main objectives of the new Czech satellite mission SOVA. The satellite will investigate processes in the middle and upper atmosphere that have not yet been fully described.
The Czech Space Alliance (CSA) is an industry association of Czech space companies with proven skills and track record in aerospace business. We are proud to be a new member of this prestigious association.
Based in Brno, OHB Czechspace is currently on the way to becoming a leading space company in the Czech Republic. The company’s satellite mission SOVA was recently awarded by the European Space Agency (ESA). "Our plan is to bring SOVA into space by 2027."
The fifth edition of the largest space industry event in the Czech Republic will take place from 28 November to 2 December 2022 in Prague and Brno. Meet OHB Czechspace and find out more about our projects.
At the beginning of October, representatives of the European Space Agency have been performing Satellite Critical Design Review of the HERA spacecraft, prepared by OHB System and supported by OHB Czechspace.
PLATO’s central tube successfully underwent a static load test at the end of July in Brno, Czech Republic. It was led by a team of engineers from OHB Czechspace in cooperation with the Institute of Aerospace Engineering at Brno University of Technology (BUT).
OHB Czechspace delivered central tube as well as the sandwich panels for the propulsion and core module in April. The backbone of Hera spacecraft is at our customer OHB SE in Bremen.
The goal of the European CO2M mission (Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Monitoring) will be to measure how much carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere only by human activity. For the first time ever, it will also be possible to accurately monitor emission sources in individual countries and regions of the European Union.
Give your career a space rhythm! We invite you to the 15th Career+ job fair. It will take place on Tuesday 5 April from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the University Auditorium of the Technical University of Ostrava.
Great news from RUAG Space from Zurich. The central tube of the Hera spacecraft is complete. It successfully passed the mandatory inspection point in the first week of March. We personally inspected the tube together with representatives of OHB System and the European Space Agency (ESA).
The Career Fair („Den firem“) 2022 will take place on Thursday, March 3, at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Brno University of Technology.
Do you want to start your career in the space industry? Are you interested in structural analysis, mechanics or structural design? Are you looking for an internship or a part time job? Come to learn more about OHB Czechspace projects.
