• OHB highlighted ATHENE-1, a roughly 400 kg small satellite built with LuxSpace and Universität der Bundeswehr München, as an in-orbit R&D test platform.
• Mission targets low-Earth orbit for 15 experiments in satellite communications, sensing, navigation resilience, onboard AI, and data processing.
• Program aims to validate technologies under operational space conditions to accelerate transition from lab research to deployable civil and military capabilities.
• Launch planned for early October on SpaceX Falcon 9 via Transporter-18 from Vandenberg, using LuxSpace’s Triton-X Heavy platform.

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