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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SENER Aeroespacial supplies multiple radio frequency payload equipment items for Airbus’s OneSat reconfigurable satellite program.
Airbus developed the NIRSpec instrument for the European Space Agency (ESA).
SENER Aeroespacial received the Competitiveness Award from Airbus Defense & Space during Airbus’s Suppliers Day held as a virtual event on 2021-10-14.
More than 70 people at Airbus sites in Ottobrunn, Friedrichshafen, and Toulouse worked on the design, development, integration, and test of NIRSpec.
Airbus, SpaceX, and Cobham were selected to support the construction of Thuraya 4-NGS.
Airbus provided the Skynet 5 program as a full-service outsource contract that has supported the UK MOD with MILSATCOM services since 2003.
Complete Skynet 6A satellite integration will occur at Airbus facilities in the UK followed by testing at the National Satellite Test Facility in Harwell, Oxfordshire.
Airbus was awarded a more than £500 million contract in July 2020 to design and build Skynet 6A.
Airbus launched Skynet 5A, 5B, 5C, and 5D satellites between 2007 and 2012.
Commercial imaging resolution has reached under 0.3 m with Airbus and Maxar leading the optical sector and ICEYE, Capella, and Umbra leading the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sector, all targeting the defense market.
Airbus and Maxar are leading in the under 30cm optical resolution market, while ICEYE, Capella, and Umbra lead in the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) market.
The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) awarded Launchspace $214,500 to support a demonstration of its orbital debris collection technology on Airbus’ Bartolomeo exterior platform on the International Space Station.
Launchspace is preparing to test Debris Impact Pads that house sensors to record information on debris impact on the Airbus Bartolomeo platform.
Airbus’ ISS Bartolomeo platform provides broad-scale payload hosting capability with end-to-end payload services, transportation, astronaut crew time, and other ISS resources.
Plex-Earth 5D includes a Timeviews feature that uses historical databases from Maxar and Airbus to monitor project progress, detect natural-hazard risks, and measure the impact of natural disasters on areas of interest.
The Intelsat award for the A220-300 expands the total Intelsat-equipped fleet at Air France to 143 aircraft, including Boeing 777 and Airbus A330 widebody aircraft.
Kongsberg Satellite Services, in partnership with Planet and Airbus, has been providing universal access to high-resolution satellite monitoring of the tropics to support efforts to stop deforestation and protect tropical forests.
Patrick A. Blott also mentioned the integration of Intermap's next-generation geospatial analytics on the UP42 platform is a new way to partner with Airbus.
Intermap Technologies has added 3D geospatial analytics and processing algorithms on UP42, a geospatial marketplace wholly owned by Airbus.
Apax Partners bought Marlink from Airbus in 2016 for an undisclosed sum.