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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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Airbus did not win any geostationary satellite orders in 2022.
During a two-week pilot landing qualification training, Airbus and partners provided guaranteed carrier-grade high-performance connectivity via SES’s O3b MEO link.
The Airbus-built I-6 F1 satellite that launched in December 2021 is slated to replace many of I-4 F1’s L-band services in the coming months.
EADS Astrium, now Airbus Defense and Space, built the I-4 F1 satellite, which was launched in 2005 with an initial 13-year design life.
I-4 F1 was built by EADS Astrium (now Airbus Defense and Space) and was launched in 2005.
Airbus U.S. Space & Defense is supplying Northrop Grumman with 42 satellite buses for the Tranche 1 communications satellites.
Airbus designed and built JUICE under contract to the European Space Agency with contributions from 80 partners across 23 countries and more than 2,000 people.
The Airbus-built JUICE spacecraft will perform several gravity-assist flybys, beginning with a joint Earth–Moon flyby in August 2024.
Airbus leads an industrial consortium of more than 110 companies across 16 European countries and Canada for the MetOp-SG missions.
The Longbow satellites will be produced at the Airbus OneWeb Satellites facility in Florida adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center.
Loft Orbital ordered an additional 15 Longbow satellite buses from Airbus OneWeb Satellites on 2023-04-06.
Loft Orbital calls the satellite buses it ordered from Airbus OneWeb Satellites Longbow.
Airbus leads an industrial consortium of more than 110 companies across 16 European countries and Canada on the MetOp-SG missions.
Loft Orbital ordered more than 15 Longbow buses from Airbus OneWeb Satellites in January 2022.
The semi-automated production line at the Airbus OneWeb Satellites Florida factory enables Longbow satellites to be produced in large numbers quickly to support customers planning larger constellations.
The Longbow design is different from the Arrow bus that Airbus markets and produces at the same Florida factory.
Integration of MetOp-SG B was completed at Airbus in Friedrichshafen with the installation of an advanced scatterometer and the spacecraft is about to undergo its environmental test campaign.
Badr-8 is based on Airbus’ Eurostar Neo platform and uses an all-electric propulsion system.
Badr-8 will carry an experimental photonics feeder link from Airbus called Teleo designed to demonstrate optical communications.
The Proba-3 satellite platforms were designed by Airbus Defence and Space in Spain.