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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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The Airbus U.S. satellite solution is derived from the flight-proven ARROW platform and expands on a commoditized satellite bus design to provide more power and larger payload accommodation.
Airbus U.S. Space and Defense, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, will produce satellite buses for the Transport Layer Tranche 1.
Airbus has produced over 400 satellite buses for OneWeb and is manufacturing more to complete the planned 648-satellite OneWeb constellation.
The Airbus Arrow 450 commercial platform will be produced at the Airbus OneWeb Satellites factory in Merritt Island, Florida.
Eclipse Global Connectivity partnered with Thales on a 17-year contract to develop and provide a SATCOM solution for French Defense Airbus MRTT aircraft.
Northrop Grumman will build Tranche 1 satellites integrating the Airbus platform with government and industry payloads, including optical communications terminals made by Mynaric.
Airbus bid in 2020 as a prime contractor to supply SDA missile-tracking satellites but lost that prime contract to L3Harris and SpaceX.
Northrop Grumman selected Airbus as its satellite bus supplier for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s low Earth orbit constellation on 2022-07-05.
Under its contract with Northrop Grumman, Airbus will provide satellite buses as well as integration, testing, launch support, and space vehicle commissioning services.
Northrop Grumman will use the Airbus Arrow 450 satellite bus for the Tranche 1 program.
A first feasibility demonstration of an auto-landing capability using EGNOS v3 was performed in November 2019 with an Airbus A350 at Toulouse Airport.
The IRIS altimeter will be delivered to Airbus in 2025 for integration in the CRISTAL satellite.
Thales Alenia Space completed phase B2 of the contract awarded by Airbus in 2020 concerning the preliminary design of the altimeter, with the instrument passing its preliminary design review.
Airbus was awarded a €160 million contract for the European Space Agency’s FORUM satellite.
Airbus has heritage in designing and manufacturing small Earth observation missions including Sentinel-5P.
Airbus in France will provide platform product support for the FORUM satellite.
Airbus, OCCAR, and the A400M Nations are engaged in initial discussions to develop a roadmap toward certification and operational use of 100 percent SAF.
Airbus is working with the German Air Force to provide the Luftwaffe with a technical allowance to commence national A400M flight trials with fuel loads of up to 50 percent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in the near term.
Airbus plans a 2022 test flight of an A400M aircraft with a fuel load of up to 50 percent SAF using one engine to assess the aircraft’s overall behavior.
Airbus has embarked on a long-term roadmap to achieve 100 percent SAF readiness and certification for the A400M.