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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David Robson spent 25 years as head of advanced payloads at EADS Astrium (now Airbus Defence and Space), according to LinkedIn.
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, which is part of Airbus, built the prototype LEO satellite Telesat is currently testing.
The new Airbus spacecraft will replace Eutelsat’s Hotbird broadcast satellite cluster, through which Eutelsat delivers more than 1,000 television channels to viewers in Europe, the Middle East, and Northern Africa.
Eutelsat received a discount from Airbus for being the first Eurostar NEO customer and will have its own engineering team working with Airbus to manage schedule risk.
Airbus is under contract to build 900 small telecommunications satellites for OneWeb and is producing the first 10 in France before shifting production to a new $85,000,000 factory in Florida.
OneWeb and Airbus created a joint venture called OneWeb Satellites to build the 900 OneWeb spacecraft and satellites for other companies.
Eutelsat is the first customer for Airbus’ Eurostar NEO platform, which Airbus developed with funding from the French and European space agencies.
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, a U.K.-based subsidiary of Airbus, built Galileo’s navigation payload and will provide the navigation payload for the next 12 Batch 3 satellites.
Finnair launched a high-speed Viasat in-flight internet service on its narrow-body Airbus fleet for European flights starting 2018-07-19.
Jim Bridenstine met with executives from Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney, Airbus, and Arianespace at the Farnborough International Airshow, according to a NASA activity readout provided 2018-07-16.
The European Space Agency awarded two study contracts to Airbus to study elements of a Mars sample return approach.
Airbus will produce at least two 150-kilogram satellites per day at the Florida facility.
The machines that will make OneWeb satellites are being tested at Airbus’ main plant in Toulouse, France before shipment to Florida.
Airbus expects to reach production of 10 satellites per week quickly based on five eight-hour workdays.
Airbus’ joint venture with OneWeb will require at least 900 spacecraft in low Earth orbit.
The Florida plant will manufacture satellites for Airbus’ joint venture with broadband startup OneWeb.
OneWeb and manufacturing partner Airbus targeted a satellite mass of 150 kg and achieved 145 kg per satellite.
Space Tango CEO Twyman Clements supports DLR and Airbus in the FLUMIAS-DEA technology demonstration and supports expanding fluorescent microscopy research capabilities on the ISS.
Airbus’ four Pleiades Neo satellites, scheduled for launch in 2020 on two Vega C rockets, will feature Tesat-Spacecom optical links to connect to Europe’s SpaceDataHighway.
Airbus can offer synthetic aperture radar imaging through Germany’s TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X satellites and Spain’s Paz satellite, enabling imaging through clouds and at night.