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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Airbus generated €64 billion in revenues in 2018 and employed around 134,000 people in 2018.
A team led by Airbus has been competitively selected by the European Space Agency to study delivery of a payload package onboard Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander around 2025.
Astrobotic is the only company selected by both NASA CLPS and by Airbus for this competitively awarded ESA mission study.
Exploration Park hosts a Blue Origin factory for producing the New Glenn rocket and a OneWeb Satellites factory where OneWeb and Airbus will build satellites for OneWeb’s broadband constellation.
Airbus will spend 25,000,000 EUR revamping facilities in Germany for solar array production and optical satellite instruments.
Airbus will expand a solar array production facility from 800 square meters to 5,500 square meters and introduce a robotic assembly line in Germany.
Under the RFI’s $200,000,000 option, Chile would seek use of satellites comparable to Airbus’s Pleiades Neo or Maxar’s WorldView Legion, which promise 30-centimeter-resolution imagery.
Airbus and Maxar Technologies are developing commercial satellite constellations that promise 30-centimeter-resolution imagery.
Airbus is building 600 to 900 OneWeb satellites through a Florida-based joint venture called OneWeb Satellites.
FASat-Charlie was built by Airbus and has a 1.45-meter-resolution imaging capability.
DARPA awarded satellite bus contracts for Blackjack to Airbus, Blue Canyon Technologies, and Telesat.
SSTL will transfer the completed Eutelsat Quantum platform from its Guildford, U.K. facility to parent company Airbus for final assembly and testing in Toulouse, France.
Planet joined an Airbus-led consortium supplying high-resolution imagery through the European Commission’s Copernicus Earth observation program.
Airbus and OneWeb together are building 900 small telecommunications satellites and received a DARPA study contract for the same commercial-bus assessment purpose.
Astrobotic has a commercial partnership with Airbus DS and a corporate sponsorship with DHL.
Airbus Safran Launchers absorbed Arianespace in 2016 and later changed its name to ArianeGroup.
André-Hubert Roussel took over Airbus’ launcher division in 2014 and helped establish the Ariane 6 program.
Alain Charmeau led the 2015 formation of Airbus Safran Launchers as a joint venture between Airbus and Safran.
Space Tango has sent 53 payloads with a total of 88 experiments into orbit for customers including Budweiser, The Quest Institute for Quality Education, and Airbus Defense and Space.
Airbus built four Skynet 5 spacecraft that were launched between 2007 and 2012 as part of a $4,700,000,000 private finance initiative with the U.K. Ministry of Defence covering procurement and operation of satellites and ground stations.