Société pour l'étude et la réalisation d'engins balistiques
Airbus is a major player in the space industry, operating as a manufacturer and service provider. They develop and build spacecraft, satellites for telecommunications, navigation, and Earth observation, and also contribute to space exploration missions. Airbus partners with organizations like ESA and NASA, providing critical hardware like the Orion European Service Module and participating in missions such as JUICE and the Artemis program.
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U.K. Export Finance signed a $325,000,000 loan with Turkey to support two satellites Airbus is building under a 2017 contract.
Airbus won the two-satellite Turksat order over Space Systems Loral and Mitsubishi Electric in a tender first announced in October 2017 and closed in November 2017.
U.K. Export Finance provided £22,000,000for a satellite to Malaysian operator Measat in 2014 with Airbus involvement.
Airbus’ contract for Turksat-5A and Turksat-5B includes the provision of a ground station, launch services, and in-orbit delivery and is worth nearly $500,000,000 as of 2019-04-25.
U.K. Export Finance provided £35,500,000for a satellite sold to Russian Satellite Communications Co. in 2013 with Airbus involvement.
Boeing built payloads for all six of Intelsat’s Epic-class high-throughput satellites and built the chassis for five of them, while Airbus supplied the platform for Intelsat-32e.
Airbus proposed in 2015 a winged system to fly back first-stage engines and noted that the approach reduced payload capacity compared with an expendable rocket.
On 2019-03-19 in Cedar Park, Texas, Firefly Aerospace executed a Memorandum of Understanding with Airbus Defence and Space to develop new space launch solutions for Airbus customers.
OneWeb Satellites, the Airbus-OneWeb joint venture, is opening an $85,000,000 factory on Florida’s Space Coast.
Firefly Aerospace and Airbus will work to develop integrated solutions intended to enable rapid deployment and replenishment of Airbus customer constellations.
The partnership between Airbus Defence and Space and Firefly Aerospace will provide Airbus customers launch options with direct access to specific orbits, operational flexibility, and short-notice launch capability.
Firefly Aerospace and Airbus will collaborate to develop integrated solutions that aim to accelerate the global small satellite market and support commercialization of cis-lunar space.
Airbus designed the new single onboard computer for the OneWeb satellites and outsourced production to a supplier capable of building it at scale.
Airbus delivers three aircraft per day, creating a supplier base experienced in high-rate production deliveries.
Firefly Aerospace will formulate an integrated market offering to provide Airbus customers rapid deployment of Airbus-manufactured satellites.
OneWeb satellites cost $1,000,000 each to produce according to Airbus Group leadership.
OneWeb will start large-scale satellite production in the spring at a new factory in Exploration Park, Florida operated by the Airbus joint venture OneWeb Satellites.
OneWeb received an initial $500,000,000 in 2015 from Airbus, Hughes Network Systems, Intelsat, Qualcomm, Virgin Group, Coca-Cola, Grupo Salinas, and Bharti Airtel.
OneWeb Satellites, the joint venture of OneWeb and Airbus, built the first 10 OneWeb satellites in Toulouse, France.
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited of the United Kingdom is a member of the ESA study team led by Airbus and Astrobotic.