OHB System’s purchase of MAN Technologie, a move that will recast OHB’s business mix by adding a heavy component of rocket-hardware construction, will more than double the company’s work force and will meet its objectives even if only four Ariane 5 rockets are launched per year in the coming years, OHB officials said.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris bureau chief for SpaceNews.