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Today, you can find Antwerp Space at the PhD Job Fair in the Universiteitshallen, Leuven.

This job fair is organized by the PhD Society Leuven (PSL), an association that provides opportunities for young researchers to extend their network and further develop their professional and social skills.

Come pay us a visit!

For more information, go to https://www.phdjobfair.org/

Antwerp Space is present at the first ever Switch to Space event, which takes place in the Egmont Palace in Brussels on October 08, 2018.

If you are a young professional living, studying or working in Belgium and interested in a career in space, then this event is for you!

Organised by YouSpace, Switch to Space is a great opportunity to meet space professionals from different fields and learn more about the space sector and its career possibilities.

Feel free to pay us a visit!

To learn more about the event, go to switchtospace.org.

This year’s International Astronautical Congress (IAC) will take place in Bremen from 1 – 5 October. As part of the Bremen-based OHB SE Group, Antwerp Space and the other subsidiaries will be displayed at the OHB booth. To find out more about our current flight projects, come and see us at booth D40, hall 5!

For more information, go to https://www.iac2018.org/.

This year, CNES is hosting its 15th biennial conference on Space Operations, SpaceOps2018. As before, Antwerp Space will also be present. SpaceOps 2018 is a technical forum where the space industry and academia representatives can discover the latest space operations techniques, share innovations, challenges and experiences with the community, and much more.

SpaceOps2018 will take place from May 28th until May 31st in Marseille, France. Find us at booth 48!

For more information, visit https://www.spaceops2018.org

Brussels / Antwerp, May 14, 2018. The planetary scientists at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) are delighted to announce the signing of a contract between the European Space Agency’s PRODEX (PROgramme for the Development of scientific Experiments) programme and Antwerp Space for the delivery of LaRa (Lander Radioscience), a ‘martian’ instrument on board ExoMars 2020.

Véronique Dehant, Principal Investigator of the instrument, comments: “I’m delighted by this signature, which is a major milestone after more than a decade of effort by the research team involved with LaRa. This is the last step before manufacturing and testing the LaRa flight model.”

LaRa will be the first Belgian instrument to be landed on the surface of Mars. Its radio transmitter and receiver will link Mars and Earth, enabling scientists at the Royal Observatory to study the rotation of Mars as well as its internal structure, with particular focus on its core. LaRa will be part of the platform of ExoMars 2020, a joint mission by the ESA and Roscosmos, Russia’s state space corporation.
“Antwerp Space is proud and honoured to manufacture this high-technology scientific instrument to be operated on the surface of Mars. It is also a recognition of the high technical competence of our teams involved in this wonderful adventure,” says Koen Puimège, Antwerp Space’s Managing Director.

A team at Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) is also involved in the project, in particular on the design of the high-performance antennas of the instrument.

Belgium and the Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO) fund the development and the manufacturing of LaRa through the ESA PRODEX program.

LaRa website: https://lara.oma.be/ 
Twitter @LaraExoMars: https://twitter.com/LaraExoMars

About the Royal Observatory of Belgium: 

The Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) is a federal scientific research institute that falls under the Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO). Researchers of the ROB study as well the Earth, the Sun as other bodies of the near and far universe. Science disciplines of ROB are astronomy, astrophysics, planetology, geophysics, seismology, gravimetry, spatial geodesy and solar physics. ROB also manages the Planetarium at the Heysel site.

About Antwerp Space:

Antwerp Space N.V., a subsidiary of listed technology group OHB SE (ISIN DE0005936124), is part of OHBs Business Unit Space Systems and provides expertise as well as system solutions for European space programs and commercial space applications worldwide. Antwerp Space develops systems and satellite equipment, satellite ground control stations for the reception of data from observation satellites and for the control of spacecrafts, as well as test systems used during the integration of satellites.

Antwerp Space will participate in the ILA trade fair April 25-29 at Berlin, ExpoCenter Airport. The first three days are reserved for trade visitors only. At the weekend the trade fair will also be open to the public. ILA is the place to be for the Aerospace Industry with the focus on innovations, new technology and sustainability. Antwerp Space will be greeting visitors at the OHB booth 201 in Hall 4. See you in Berlin!

Friday March 23rd, 16 students from the Women’s Department ‘Amelia’ of the University of Technology in Delft visited Antwerp Space. The purpose of this excursion was to let these women acquire insights in the aerospace industry and inspire them to pursue a career in the technical field of aerospace. This was a big opportunity for the female students to meet and see professionals at work and this excursion could provide potential future employees. Antwerp Space fervently supports these kinds of initiatives to increase the number of women active in the space industry.

On Friday the 23rd and Saturday the 24th of February you can gaze at the moon and stars at more than 25 locations in Flanders. That’s when observatories and amateur astronomers offer you a chance to take a closer look at the moon and stars through their telescopes.

For more information and to find an observation site near you, go to www.sterrenkijkdagen.be.
Sterrenkijkdagen is an event sponsored by Antwerp Space!

Koen Puimège has been appointed Managing Director of Antwerp Space N.V., effective January 1st 2018.

“Following the Company’s strong growth after the successful take-over by OHB in 2010, this appointment is a logical next step to re-install a local management in Belgium in order to continue the success story of Antwerp Space in the past years” says OHB Corporate Chief Executive Officer Marco R. Fuchs.

Koen Puimège has been working in the space industry for more than 22 years, holding positions in engineering, project management, operations management and business development before joining Antwerp Space as COO in 2015.

“I am very pleased with Koen Puimège’s appointment as Managing Director of Antwerp Space. We have already seen the positive effects of his experience, leadership and dedication to grow the company over the past 2,5 years as COO. With this decision we further strengthen the position of Antwerp Space as market leader in RF- and communication”, says Oliver Salisch, Vice President of the Board and former Managing Director of Antwerp Space.

“I am looking forward to this new challenge and I am proud to lead Antwerp Space and the fantastic team behind it. I am convinced that we are able to grow the company further and contribute to the future success of the OHB group”, says Koen Puimège.