The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a contract worth more than €280 million to OHB System AG, a subsidiary of the space and technology group OHB SE in Germany, to create two satellites for the “Earth Explorer 10” Harmony mission. 

OHB announced that Simonetta Cheli, ESA Director of Earth Observations Programs, and Rüdiger Schönfeld, Board Member at OHB System AG, signed the contract during the 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) held in Milan on October 15, 2024. 

The agreement includes the management of the industrial consortium as well as the development and construction of two new Earth observation satellites for ESA’s FutureEO program. These satellites will work alongside the Copernicus satellite, Sentinel-1, and use its radar signals.  

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