Jena-Optronik exhibited at ILA 2022 – Berlin Air Show.
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Hello and welcome in berlin my name is Annette.
I’m in charge of public relations at Jena Optronik.
I’m in charge of public relations at Jena Optronik.
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Jena Optronik is a space company located in Jena and I would say is about halfway between berlin and Munich here in Germany.
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As a space company, we do have two main product lines.
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We have products which are called Star Sensors.
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Actually it’s quite essential for satellite.
When you as a satellite floating around in space you need something for orientation and we are using the stars.
When you as a satellite floating around in space you need something for orientation and we are using the stars.
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So basically this little sensor is working like a camera.
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We are taking a picture of the stars we are doing so 10 times per second and then we are setting the stars into triangulation and comparing them with an internal star catalog.
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Sounds a bit crazy but actually it’s like what the seaman used to do on on ships a few hundred years ago.
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Because this is the most accurate way to do so in space we are market leader with this product.
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With a customer base worldwide and we are really proud of it.
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We are quite a small companies we are about 240 employees.
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But what is important we are covering the whole value chain for such a product.
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From design to engineering integration and test we are all these things doing at our site in Jena,
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which is especially important for our customers outside of Germany or outside of Europe so this is one of our usps.
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These products are technically wise really state of the art,
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but with this product we are going to moon, we are going to mars for example, as you see in the background,
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the aligned spaceship which is going to be launched hopefully in august this year, will go to the moon the first time again.
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It’s a European American joint mission.
This little star sensor which is called Astro aps.
This little star sensor which is called Astro aps.
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Aps stands for active pixel sensor will guide aligned to the moon.
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Another mission with where this little sensor is on is the mast sample return mission.
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For the first time the aim of the European space agency is it to bring samples from mars back to earth.
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Quite spectacular, we are not only flying around earth on various communication or earth observation satellites ,but we are also going to moon and mars .
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If you like to get to know us and our products a little better feel free to visit our website which is www.jena-optronik.de.