Société pour l'étude et la réalisation d'engins balistiques
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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Loft-EarthDaily was the largest payload on the CAS500-2 rideshare mission and consisted of 6 Airbus Arrow satellites.
Airbus Defence & Space is Skynopy’s largest customer.
Airbus, Anova, BlueTraker, Bosch, Datakorum, Dräger, IFCO, Jember, Markoja, Monil, MountAIn, OA, PhySens, Sensolus, and VEGA are listed as main participants in Deutsche Telekom's Multi-Orbit Early Adopter Program.
UWA describes Novespace’s Airbus A310 Zero-G as the world’s largest civilian microgravity research platform.
Thales Alenia Space has signed an industrial cooperation agreement with RADMOR and Airbus Defense and Space to build the spacecraft.
Airbus Defense and Space has a long-standing partnership with the Polish armed forces and industry.
Australian astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg used Novespace’s Airbus A310 Zero-G for zero-gravity training during her European Space Agency astronaut preparation.
A consortium of Thales Alenia Space, RADMOR, and Airbus Defense and Space will jointly develop a geostationary defense telecommunications satellite dedicated to the Polish Ministry of Defense.
International Space Centre Director Professor Danail Obreschkow has completed 354 parabolic flight manoeuvres aboard the Airbus Zero-G with the European Space Agency.
The research campaign will use Novespace’s Airbus A310 Zero-G.
Airbus reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of 12.7 billion euro ($14.9 billion), a 7% year-over-year decrease.
Eutelsat awarded Airbus contracts to build a OneWeb constellation extension in two phases, for 100 satellites in December 2024 and 340 additional satellites in December 2025.
Airbus awarded MDA Space a contract for more than 1,300 antennas for an expanded OneWeb low Earth orbit constellation.
The Airbus contract is MDA Space’s second major antenna order for the OneWeb satellite network.
Airbus will integrate the new antennas into Arrow telecommunications satellites.
Orbit Fab is working with Airbus Defence and Space on a feasibility study for integrating RAFTI into future Airbus geostationary satellites.
The Airbus RAFTI feasibility study is funded by the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency’s RADICAL program.
Airbus’ AI models have covered more than 1.2 million km² of landscapes in East Africa, including agroforestry systems and shade-grown cultivation.
Airbus uses Pléiades satellite imagery at 50 cm resolution and Pléiades Neo imagery at 30 cm resolution with AI models trained by Airbus to identify and monitor coffee plantations from space.
Airbus and its partners aim to achieve global coverage of all coffee-growing regions in 2027.