OHB subsidiary LuxSpace’s satellite for global ship monitoring has reached its target orbit Kourou/Betzdorf, September 3, 2020. ESAIL, the first commercial microsatellite developed under the European Space Agency ESA’s SAT-AIS programme for tracking ships, took off successfully from the spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on board a Vega launcher at 3.51 a.m. (CET) tonight, reaching … Continue reading Lift-off at last: ESAIL successfully launched