Technology Transfer
Over the course of time, MORABA developed mechanical and electrical flight systems – which were either difficult or impossible to acquire on the commercial market – in addition to the existing attitude control and parachute recovery systems.
Subsystems which were developed for sounding rockets were also successfully employed for orbital missions.
BIRD
Bi-Spectral Infra Red Detection – German Aerospace Center micro-satellite which can detect fires on Earth from their infrared radiation
- Demonstration of innovative remote sensor technology for the detection of fires using micro satellites
- Launch on 22.10.2001 in sun-synchronous orbit (572 km)
- Scheduled service life: 1.5 years, End of Mission 2006
MORABA Involvement
- Telemetry system
- Telecommand encoder/decoder
- RF system
EXPRESS
EXPeriment REentry Space System
- Re-entry experiment and physical tests in micro gravity
- Launch on 15 January 1995 in Kagoshima (Japan)
- Scheduled seven-day orbit of the Earth and directed landing in Coober Pedy (Australia)
MORABA Involvement
- As subcontractor for EADS development and provision of the on-board TT&C systems
- Set-up of the mobile TM, TC and radar stations in Australia