Jena optronics
| Jena-Optronik GmbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1992 |
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Jena Germany
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| management | Dietmar Ratzsch |
| Number of employees | 245 |
| sales | about 55 million |
| Branch | Space travel |
| Website | www.jena-optronik.de |
| Status: 2018 | |
The Jena-Optronik GmbH (abbreviation JOP ) is a former subsidiary of Jenoptik AG in Jena , the beginning of October 2010 to the EADS subsidiary Astrium was sold.
The company can look back on many years of experience in the development and manufacture of opto-electronic sensors, instruments and software for space travel . In the past, engineers within the former VEB Carl Zeiss Jena worked on various multispectral cameras , fire control systems and instruments for electronic distance measurement .
Company history
Jena-Optronik GmbH was founded in 1992. From 2005 to 2010 it was a wholly-owned Jenoptik subsidiary and a company in the Jenoptik Defense & Civil Systems division. Today it has around 250 employees at the Jena location.
The activities include the following business areas:
- Position control sensors for satellites and space probes
- Instruments for earth observation and space exploration
Past projects included the MSK 4 aerial camera , the MKF 6 multispectral space camera , the CHAMP science satellite , the Mirka micro return capsule and various components for opto-electronic systems, for example for HRSC , Rolis and the Integral satellite mission . The Thuringian company is currently working on the multispectral line scanner JSS-56 for the RapidEye satellite system, the photogrammetric multispectral stereo line scanner Jena Airborne Scanner (JAS) for aerial surveys and star sensors for many satellite projects worldwide.
As the most important system supplier of sensors for position measurement in space and a partner for the space organizations ESA and NASA or the satellite manufacturer Boeing, Jena-Optronik develops rendezvous and docking sensors, sun and star sensors that are used in international space and satellite programs. The demands on the sensors are high. In addition to robustness, accuracy and reliability, the service life in particular plays a decisive role.
With the docking of the first ATV ( Automated Transfer Vehicle ) "Jules Verne" of the European Space Agency ESA to the International Space Station ISS on April 3, 2008, Europe experienced a premiere in space travel. The rendezvous and docking sensors from Jena-Optronik enable fully automatic docking at a height of 350 kilometers. From a distance of 1,000 meters from the ISS, the rendezvous and docking sensors RVS TGM ( telegoniometer ) and RVS VDM ( videometer ) were used. The RVS system is able to measure the distance and approach direction of the ATV to the space station so that a supply ship can dock precisely and safely.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Jena-Optronik - company profile. Retrieved October 28, 2012 .
- ↑ Sale of Jena Optronik completed. (No longer available online.) Jenoptik, archived from the original on April 29, 2014 ; Accessed December 31, 2012 (press release). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ News & Press - Company profile EDRS-C press release. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
- ↑ ECSS - Space Product Assurance: Principles and Procedures. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
- ↑ ATV - Rendezvous in Space , jena-optronik.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '17.3 " N , 11 ° 35' 54.8" E