[Satellite Today – 1-30-08] OHB Technology AG acquired 50 percent of the interest in RST Raumfahrt Systemtechnik GmbH from the company’s founder and owner, OHB Technology announced Jan. 30.
    RST has been a radar partner of OHB-System AG in the SAR-Lupe, assuming project responsibility for the radar conceptual design and SAR processing in particular.
    RST opens a sustainable path of access to radar technologies for OHB Technology, especially within the framework of the concepts for spaceborne reconnaissance, OHB said. OHB and RST also are developing future technologies for the second generation of SAR-Lupe, scheduled for deployment in 2017.