DLR to Demonstrate In-Flight Satellite Servicing

DLR Takes Step Toward In-Orbit Servicing Demo
Space News

OHB Technology will be system prime contractor for a German government program to demonstrate in-orbit servicing and de-orbiting of satellites and other hardware, Bremen, Germany-based OHB announced Feb. 24.

The German space agency, DLR, has awarded contracts for five components of its DEOS system, an acronym for German Orbital Servicing Mission, which is expected to cost up to 200 million euros ($272 million) once the decision is made to build a flight demonstrator.

DLR has not yet made that commitment. But the agency, which has been looking at a variety of in-orbit satellite refueling, inspection and maintenance technologies for over a decade, has moved DEOS forward from preliminary study to more-detailed design work.

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