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Director of Corporate Affairs and Public Relations of German Orbital Systems Ivan Kosenkov for Arctic Startup Startup world is cruel one. The statistics is clear enough – 90% of startups die prematurely. The rate is even higher for hardware startups. Not to mention that aerospace industry is even more specific with high entry barriers, high […]

German Orbital Systems GmbH (GOS) and iSky Technology s.r.o. (iSky) are happy to inform you about the successful launch of the D-Star ONE Phoenix satellite launched as a part of the ECM Launch Services GmbH (ECM) smallsat cluster of 9 satellites on the 1st of February, 2018. ECM smallsat cluster was launched from the Vostochny […]

D-Star ONE Phoenix is on the launch pad and waiting for take off. As we did for D-Star ONE, today we also announce a small competition dedicated to this event for all the radio amateurs worldwide. The winner will be awarded a unique gift package from German Orbital Systems which will be shipped worldwide, as […]

We would like to announce that the teams of German Orbital Systems GmbH (GOS) and iSky Technologies s.r.o. (iSky) have finished the prelaunch preparation of the D-Star ONE Phoenix 3U CubeSat. All satellite systems are operating normally and a joint decision to integrate the SC into the deployer was taken.   GOS and iSky teams […]

Today is a big day for German Orbital Systems GmbH (GOS) and iSky Technology s.r.o. (iSky). The 10th of January 2018 will go down in the history of the GOS and iSky companies as the day of the D-Star ONE satellite revival! German Orbital Systems review of 2017 >> On November 28, 2017 we lost […]

This year was full of new experiences, contacts and achievements for our company. Here is a brief recap of German Orbital Systems’ activities in 2017 with some highlights on our plans for 2018. The most important proof of our capabilities is our flight-proven hardware. In 2017 German Orbital Systems participated in two space launches from […]

Walter Ballheimer talked with Co-Founder Magazine author Valerie Vlasenko about space business and what it takes to start-up a space company. Read more in article “GAINS AND PAINS OF BEING SPACE ENTREPRENEUR IN EUROPE” >> German Orbital Systems is a Berlin-based New Space Company. It was founded in 2014 by the former scientific staff of […]

We are sorry to announce that on November 28, 2017 the launch of the Roscosmos Federal State Corporation meteorological satellite Meteor-M №2-1 with a cluster of 18 small satellites failed. The Soyuz-2 /Fregat launch system has failed to inject the Meteor-M №2-1 SC with a cluster of smallsats, including D-Star ONE, into the target orbit. […]

D-Star ONE launch is coming – in three days the first private German CubeSat, designed and built by German Orbital Systems will be delivered to orbit by Soyuz launch vehicle from Vostochny launch site. That’s why today we announce a competition dedicated to this event for all the radio amateurs worldwide. The winner will be […]

From the 6th to the 20th of November, at the Vostochny launch site (Tsiolkovsky, Amur Oblast, Russia), the teams of German Orbital Systems GmbH (GOS) and iSky Technology s.r.o. (iSky) conducted final preflight checkout procedures of the D-Star ONE SC subsystems and telecommunication modules. All tests were completed successfully. Based on the results GOS and […]

To answer most of the questions we get from the community, we will try to explain some of the basic functionality of the D-Star ONE communication systems. A more complete tutorial will be uploaded on this website shortly after launch and LEOP. But for those who want to receive the first beacon, the following details […]

German Orbital Systems and iSky Technology companies completed successfully the final tests of the D-Star One small satellite’s systems and arranged its shipment to the launch site. The tests were performed to verify radio uplink and downlink, D-Star modules, antenna deployment mechanism. After testing the satellite was integrated into the flight CubeSat dispenser. D-Star One […]

Last week the representatives of German Orbital Systems, Daria Stepanova and Ilja Skrypnyk, have visited the Space Tech Expo in Bremen. The expo connected the spacecraft, satellite, launch vehicle providers, brings together industry leaders, decision makers, engineers. The event was great for gathering important contacts, providers, and customers. German Orbital Systems also had a presentation […]

German Orbital Systems CEO Walter Ballheimer talked with Russian Students about CubeSats during his lecture at Amur State University. The meeting was organized as part of the educational program of Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos. Report of Russia24 >> German Orbital Systems is a Berlin based New Space Company. It was founded in 2014 by the […]

French consultancy Euroconsult forecasts that significant expansion in terms of capabilities and demand is underway in the smallsat market. More than 6,200 smallsats are to be launched in the next 10 years, with the market value expected to reach up to $30.1 billion, compared with $8.9 billion in the previous decade, according to a report […]

German Orbital Systems GmbH (Berlin, Germany) works on the development of small satellites’ constellation for the D-Star communication on LEO orbit, the constellation will consist of 3U CubeSats. This project is implemented in partnership with iSky Technology s.r.o. (Prague, Czech Republic). The first satellite called «D-Star One» is designed for technology demonstration with two D-Star […]

“A start-up from Berlin is manufacturing satellites so small, that space is now affordable for many companies…” The article of one of the most influential German newspaper tells about current projects of German Orbital Systems GmbH. Full text of the article you can read here>>

July 14th, 2017 Soyuz-2.1a rocket with a Fregat upper stage launched Kanopus-V-IK Earth observation satellite for Russian Sate Space Corporation  Roscosmos (Roscosmos) from Baikonur launch site, Kazakhstan. The primary payload and seventy two secondary payloads of a smallsat cluster were successfully deployed  into three different target orbits during one mission. The unique  cluster of 72 […]

All the works of German Orbital Systems team at Baikonur cosmodrome are completed. Now we are waiting for the launch that will occur in the morning, July 14th. Our DCSM unit will control the accurate deployment of 15 customer satellites from small satellite dispensers attached to Soyuz-2.1a rocket with a Fregat upper stage. Take a […]

Recently German Orbital Systems received the request from Airbus Safran Launchers to organize the workshop on New Space approach to space system development, showing which things New and Old Space have in common while emphasizing the differences. As a result, the workshop was conducted from May 15th to May 19th at Sindringen & Forchtenberg consisting […]