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, Thales, and Leonardo signed a memorandum of understanding in October 2025 to combine their space activities into a single company under Project Bromo.
Phase 1 of Commercial LEO Destinations funded three partnerships through Space Act Agreements: Blue Origin/Sierra Space for Orbital Reef, Axiom Space for a modular station approach, and Voyager Space partnered with Airbus for Starlab.
The collaboration between Keysight and Airbus UpNext aims to foster a non-proprietary, standardized ecosystem for satellite communications.
The European Service Module for the Orion spacecraft is developed and built by Airbus.
Phase 1 incumbents Blue Origin/Sierra, Axiom, and Voyager/Airbus face competition from new entrants and must demonstrate technical maturity, financial viability, schedule realism, and the ability to attract non-NASA customers.
Airbus Defence and Space is absorbing Airbus Constellations Satellites (ACS).
Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN aims to provide more resilient and secure communications for military and government sectors to support improved situational awareness and accelerate real-time decision-making.
Airbus UpNext expects the SpaceRAN demonstrator to show its first results by 2028.
The first batches of Eutelsat’s new OneWeb satellites manufactured by Airbus Defence & Space are expected to be ready for launch towards the end of this year.
Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN aims to open the door to user-to-user direct connectivity via in-orbit processing.
Airbus UpNext launched a demonstrator called Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN into orbit.
Airbus assembled a consortium for the SpaceRAN demonstrator that includes Aalyria, AccelerComm, CesiumAstro, Deutsche Telekom, Eutelsat, the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Keysight Technologies, Onati, Radisys, Sener, and ST Engineering iDirect.
Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN is a demonstrator to explore advanced 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) capabilities for standardized global connectivity.
Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN aims to enable standardized, interoperable, and globally available connectivity for commercial, defense, and governmental use.
Airbus Defence & Space at its Toulouse, France facility will fulfill Eutelsat’s new OneWeb satellite order.
Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN will leverage Airbus’ software-defined satellite capabilities to manage and optimize 5G signals in orbit.
SpainSat NG II is one of a pair of satellites built by Airbus to provide secure communications for the Spanish Armed Forces.
Including a previous order of 100 satellites from December 2024, Eutelsat’s total OneWeb satellite orders under contract with Airbus are up to 440 satellites.
Airbus Defense and Space will manufacture the additional OneWeb satellites at its Toulouse facility on a newly installed production line with delivery beginning at the end of 2026.
Airbus secured the contract to build the first two SpainSat NG satellites in May 2019.