Airbus

The European Space Agency has signed an agreement with Airbus and Voyager on the Starlab commercial space station.

Airbus and the European Space Agency have an established partnership in developing and operating a wide range of crewed and uncrewed spacecraft.

Voyager Space announced a joint venture with Airbus in August to develop the Starlab commercial space station.

Chris Emerson previously served as Chairman and CEO of Airbus U.S. Space and Defense.

Chris Emerson is a former aerospace executive with senior roles at Airbus.

Airbus and Voyager Space signed a memorandum of understanding with the European Space Agency on 2023-11-09 during the European Space Summit in Seville, Spain.

The European Space Agency signed an agreement with Airbus and Voyager Space to study potential use of the companies’ Starlab commercial space station as a successor to the International Space Station.

The ESA-funded, Airbus-built JUICE mission launched in April 2023 on an eight-year voyage to Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa.

Superbird-9 is based on Airbus OneSat satellite system and features a fully digital, highly flexible payload.

Airbus has been awarded the Skynet Design Support Contract (SDSC) to provide Design Authority reach back for the UK’s SKYNET 5 and SKYNET 6A military satellite communications systems.

Airbus and Northrop Grumman will collaborate to offer customers the latest military satellite communications technologies and ensure users are connected and able to process increasing amounts of data collected and disseminated on the ground, in the air, at sea, and in orbit.

Airbus and Northrop Grumman signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop and foster a strategic partnership in military satellite communications for the United Kingdom’s future wideband SKYNET military satellite communications program.

SSC is the key commercial ground station service provider for Airbus-built satellite mission THEOS-2.

Sener led an industrial team for Proba-3 that includes Redwire Space, Airbus Defence and Space in Spain, GMV Space and Defence, and Spacebel.

The Sener-led industrial team for Proba-3 includes Redwire Space, Airbus Defence and Space in Spain, GMV Space and Defence, and Spacebel.

Airbus implemented changes to its leadership team led by Chief Executive Officer Guillaume Faury.

From 2024-01-01, the Airbus leadership team led by CEO Guillaume Faury will consist of Thierry Baril as Chief Human Resources Officer, Bruno Even as CEO Airbus Helicopters, Alberto Gutierrez as EVP Special Industrial Projects, John Harrison as General Counsel, Catherine Jestin as EVP Digital and Information Management, Julie Kitcher as Chief Sustainability Officer and Communications, Sabine Klauke as Chief Technology Officer, Christian Scherer as CEO Commercial Aircraft, Mike Schoellhorn as CEO Airbus Defence and Space, Thomas Toepfer as Chief Financial Officer, Jeff Knittel as Chairman and CEO Airbus Americas, Matthieu Louvot as EVP Strategy, Wouter van Wersch as EVP International, and George Xu as CEO Airbus China.

OneSat builds on the heritage of Airbus’ Eurostar geostationary telecommunications satellites and Airbus’ constellation expertise from OneWeb.

Voyager Space and Northrop Grumman’s teaming follows Voyager Space and Airbus forming a transatlantic joint venture to develop and operate the Starlab space station intended to ensure a continued human presence in low Earth orbit and launch before the ISS is decommissioned.

CesiumAstro is scheduled to deliver hardware for the Airbus flight demonstration in 2023-07-01.