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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The Skynet 5 private finance initiative with Airbus is scheduled to end on 31 August 2022.
The U.K. Ministry of Defence will award Airbus a sole-source contract for one Skynet-6A geostationary communications satellite.
The sole-source decision for the Skynet 6A contract with Airbus is not being reversed, but the contract will not be signed until mid to late 2019 due to bureaucratic delays.
Airbus developed the net used by RemoveDebris to capture a target cubesat.
Airbus developed a vision-based navigation system for RemoveDebris that uses 2D and 3D light detection and ranging technology to track a cubesat.
Airbus developed the harpoon for RemoveDebris that will be fired at 20 m per second to penetrate a composite-material target.
Maxar is competing as a team with Thales Alenia Space against Airbus to build an estimated $3,000,000,000 worth of small telecommunications satellites for Canadian operator Telesat.
Airbus (UK) developed the harpoon payload for RemoveDEBRIS and Airbus (Germany) developed the net payload.
The Thales Alenia Space and Maxar Technologies team is competing against Airbus for a 2019 Telesat contract estimated to be worth $3,000,000,000.
Airbus offers customers the option to buy a Direct Receiving Station to access the full capabilities of its satellite constellation.
Pléiades Neo is a planned constellation of four very high-resolution imaging satellites that Airbus intends to start launching in 2020.
Airbus has been investing heavily in the geospatial segment for two years and plans to continue investing over the next years.
Airbus provides derivative products from WorldDEM to commercial companies for use in geospatial tools and products.
Airbus operates a comprehensive satellite constellation made up of radar and optical sensors with access to third-party sensors.
Airbus began delivering WorldDEM in 2016 and has delivered the full program, which is used by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
Airbus is funding Pléiades Neo with 100 percent Airbus money for the follow-on to the two existing Pléiades satellites.
Airbus currently has three radar satellites—TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, and the Spanish partner Hisdesat’s PAZ—which will be operated in a constellation.
Airbus signed a structural partnership agreement with Orbital Insight to integrate Orbital Insight analytics into Airbus’s OneAtlas platform and to provide Orbital Insight with greater access to Airbus data.
François Lombard became head of Airbus Intelligence in early 2017.
The Airbus-led consortium will provide full high-resolution coverage of Europe every two years for the Copernicus program.