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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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TotalEnergies will supply Airbus with sustainable aviation fuel for more than half of Airbus’s needs in Europe.
Airbus took significant charges on the OneSat program as part of the 2023 space-program charges.
Airbus currently operates two Pléiades Neo satellites launched in 2021 that provide images at resolutions as sharp as 0.3 m.
Airbus’s 2023 financial results released 2024-02-15 reported the 600,000,000 EUR in charges, which were 200,000,000 EUR higher than previously reported.
Airbus attributed part of the 2023 charges to suppliers failing to keep up with Airbus plans and to internal issues within Airbus.
Airbus took 600,000,000 EUR in charges in 2023 related to satellite programs.
OneSat is a new Airbus line of geostationary-orbit communications satellites with software-defined payloads.
Lockheed Martin is competing for projects under the ISTARI program and is competing with Airbus in the $7,000,000,000 Skynet 6 strategic communications satellite program.
Since 2017, NASA’s Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program has awarded contracts to Airbus U.S., Maxar Technologies, Planet, Spire, Teledyne Brown Engineering, and the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota to share optical, hyperspectral, synthetic aperture radar, and other datasets.
Airbus has nine firm orders for OneSat and has not delivered any OneSat satellites to customers yet.
The OneWeb satellites were built by a Florida-based joint venture with Airbus, and Airbus recently bought Eutelsat out of that joint venture for an undisclosed sum.
Sener has been chosen by the European Space Agency and Airbus UK to carry out the design and prototyping of a critical payload element for the TRUTHS mission.
Since emerging from stealth, Aalyria has received awards from and developed partnerships with the Defense Innovation Unit, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Comtech, the European Space Agency, Telesat, Intelsat, Airbus, and Rivada Space.
The Spectro-polarimeter for Planetary Exploration was developed and built by a Dutch consortium led by the Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands.
The Spectro-polarimeter for Planetary Exploration was developed and built by a Dutch consortium led by the Netherlands Institute for Space Research and including Airbus Defense and Space Netherlands.
After working at Eutelsat, Mylène Bosio worked for Airbus Defense and Space.
The consortium led by Telespazio includes Airbus (France), e-GEOS (Italy), Geoville (Austria), Hisdesat (Spain), Leonardo (Italy), PwC (France) and Thales Alenia Space (Italy).
Airbus unveiled the first ZEROe concept in 2020 with the ambition to bring the world’s first hydrogen-powered commercial aircraft to market by 2035.
Voyager Space and Airbus finalized the Starlab Space joint venture on 2024-01-09 after announcing the partnership the previous August.
Airbus offers Iris as a fully developed and certified capability on A320 and A330 series aircraft.