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 is the prime industrial contractor for ESM-4 on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA).
The European contribution, coordinated by Airbus and ESA, underscores the central role of international cooperation in developing future crewed lunar missions.
Airbus is coordinating a European industrial supply chain that involves numerous specialized suppliers for the construction of ESM-4.
Qatar Airways equipped its entire Airbus A350 fleet with Starlink in-flight connectivity within eight months.
The SpainSat NG II satellite was built by Airbus.
In 2019, Hisdesat selected a consortium led by Airbus and Thales Alenia Space to build two satellites for Spain’s SPAINSAT NG programme.
SpainSat NG 2, built by Airbus Space, launched in October and suffered an anomaly on its way to geostationary orbit.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions concluded the first Factory Acceptance Test for its EPOCH Command and Control software integrated with the Airbus OneSat software-defined satellite platform on December 30, 2025.
The Airbus OneSat platform is designed to reshape beams, adjust capacity, and reconfigure missions while in orbit.
Leonardo, Airbus, and Thales have formed a joint venture to address European industrial fragmentation.
One entity in the Airbus-Thales-Leonardo joint venture can dictate terms, timelines, and technology access.
SpaceSail signed an MoU with Airbus to integrate the Thousand Sails NGSO constellation into Airbus’s HBCPlus offering.
Airbus Defence and Space GmbH commercializes the TanDEM-X data, which is also used by ministries such as the Federal Ministry of Defence.
Avianca, part of Abra Group, has 10 Airbus A320s in service equipped with SES’s new electronically steered array antenna.
The in-flight connectivity service will be retrofitted to more than 100 Abra Group aircraft, including Airbus and Boeing planes, in the coming years.
Airbus is working directly with AMIAD to deploy algorithms capable of processing massive datasets from satellites, radars, and drones securely within national infrastructure.
This award builds on Airbus’s expanding role in French military space and ground segment architecture.
The Iris capability will be initially rolled out on four ITA Airways Airbus A320neo aircraft.
A second option is to leverage a commercial low Earth destination with a European component, such as Starlab, a joint venture between Airbus and Voyager Space.
The Starling platform, developed by Airbus with the Earthworm Foundation, makes deforestation monitoring more effective, continuous, and objective.