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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 Defence and Space selected Blacktree Technology Pty Ltd of Perth, Australia to provide the ground segment for an Airbus-funded UHF military communications hosted payload on-board a commercial telecommunications satellite manufactured by Airbus.
All images acquired by Airbus satellites for the Polar POD initiative will support the initiative’s communication and educational impact.
The Airbus-funded UHF hosted payload will enable up to 200 simultaneous communications over Europe, the Middle East, Africa, large parts of Asia, the Atlantic Ocean to eastern Brazil, and the Indian Ocean to western Australia.
The Airbus Foundation will provide the Polar POD expedition with access to Earth observation satellite data and additional capabilities for reliable high-speed telecommunications.
The Airbus-funded UHF payload will serve allied armed forces including European and NATO countries.
The Airbus-funded UHF hosted payload has 18 UHF channels.
Airbus is partnering with Blacktree Technology in Team Maier as part of its bid to address Australia’s Joint Project JP 9102 to provide a Sovereign Defense Satellite Communications System.
Airbus optical and radar satellite constellations will support the scientific studies of the Polar POD initiative and offer better resolution than public satellites.
Zhongxing-16 has supplied connectivity to aviation passengers such as Sichuan Airlines’ Airbus A320 flights using Viasat in-flight connectivity equipment.
ESA invested about €2 billion in the Orion program and contracted Airbus to lead the European consortium to build six European Service Modules to date.
Airbus engineers produce the European Service Modules together with ESA and industry partners, including suppliers from 10 countries.
The ESM-4 structure arrived at Airbus’ Bremen cleanroom in June 2022 and is currently being integrated.
European Service Module manufacturing builds on Airbus’ experience from the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), which flew five times to the ISS between 2008 and 2015.
Airbus is finalizing its offer to provide European Service Modules 7, 8, and 9.
Airbus is on track to meet NASA’s requirement to deliver one European Service Module per year going forward.
Airbus is integrating three European Service Modules (ESM-3, ESM-4, and ESM-5) in parallel in its Bremen cleanrooms.
Airbus delivered the first two European Service Modules to date.
Both Airbus-built Inmarsat-6 satellites are equipped with a hybrid Ka-band and L-band payload to primarily provide mobile connectivity services across maritime, aviation, and government markets.
Both Inmarsat-6 F1 and Inmarsat-6 F2 were built by Airbus and are equipped with a hybrid Ka-band and L-band payload.
Thomas Toepfer, currently Chief Financial Officer of Covestro AG, will join Airbus on 2023-09-01.