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 CO-OP project, coordinated by Airbus, aims to prepare a French consortium for future operational systems for two-way optical telecommunications with geostationary satellites.
The TELEO demonstration was introduced in the 2020 roadmap and is part of a project led by Airbus.
Sentinel-1C is equipped with an Airbus-built C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar that provides radar images for global monitoring of land and oceans regardless of cloud cover.
Gabriel Oehme spent 22 years at Airbus in roles including operations, business development, procurement, and sales.
Celia Pelaz played a major role in the carve-out of HENSOLDT from the Airbus Group in 2017 and in HENSOLDT’s initial public offering in 2020.
Airbus Crisa developed the power processing unit used to manage and operate the RIT2X thruster within the GIESEPP MP system.
Bremen hosts facilities for Airbus, ArianeGroup, and OHB.
Airbus announced on 2024-10-16 that it will cut up to 2,500 jobs in its Defence and Space division by mid-2026.
Airbus took a €900 million charge in June for the first half of the year on its Space Systems business.
Airbus sees potential for consolidation in Europe to create space and defense companies of a size that improves competitiveness against non-European players.
Voyager Space is working with Airbus, Mitsubishi, and MDA Space on the NASA-supported Starlab commercial space station.
Kepler Communications is collaborating with TESAT and Airbus to deliver the HydRON Element #1 optical constellation.
Contracts to build elements of the IRIS² secure connectivity constellation for the European Union would provide business opportunities for Airbus and Thales.
Airbus announced it would cut 2,500 jobs by mid-2026.
The 19 HALO pool members are Airbus U.S. Space & Defense (Arlington, Virginia); Apex Technology, Inc. (Culver City, California); AST Space Mobile USA LLC (Midland, Texas); Astro Digital, U.S. Inc. (San Jose, California); Capella Space Corp. (San Francisco); CesiumAstro Inc. (Austin, Texas); Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (Cedar Park, Texas); Geneva Technologies Inc. (Monument, Colorado); Impulse Space, Inc. (Redondo Beach, California); Kepler Communications U.S. Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware); Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) LLC (Arlington, Virginia); LeoStella LLC (Tukwila, Washington); Momentus Space (San Jose, California); Muon Space, Inc. (Mountain View, California); NovaWurks Inc. (Los Alamitos, California); Space Exploration Technologies Corps. (SpaceX) (Hawthorne, California); Turion Space Corp. (Irvine, California); Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. (Irvine, California); and York Space Systems LLC (Denver).
Airbus U.S. Space & Defense mostly built OneWeb’s first-generation constellation at its mass production facility in Merritt Island, Florida.
Airbus Defence & Space expects the organizational measures to result in a reduction of up to 2,500 positions within the Division until mid 2026.
Intended measures at Airbus Defence & Space include creating a more effective and efficient organizational structure for the Division with particular focus on headquartered functions.
Airbus recorded significant financial charges in 2023 and 2024 in the Space Systems segment.
Transformation efforts at Airbus Defence & Space initiated in 2023 have begun improving operational performance and risk management.