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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Airbus spends in excess of £4 billion each year with UK suppliers.
Airbus Defence and Space UK designed and built the Solar Orbiter mission currently operating at the Sun.
Airbus’ UK supply chain comprises more than 2,000 companies, including Rolls-Royce and GKN and hundreds of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Airbus Defence and Space in Germany led development of the Sentinel-2 satellites.
Airbus Defence and Space UK designed and built the European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover, which is due to launch in 2022.
Boris Johnson officially opened Airbus’ new £35 million UK space and defence headquarters, Orbit House, in Stevenage.
Airbus Defense and Space in France led the multispectral instrument development for Sentinel-2.
Airbus pioneered the use of silicon carbide in Sentinel-2 telescope structures to provide high optical stability and minimize thermo-elastic deformation.
Airbus Defense and Space in Germany led the satellite development for Sentinel-2.
Airbus is leading a consortium to develop EuroQCI under a 15-month study contract awarded by the European Commission.
Airbus has signed the first firm orders for the UHF capacity on EUTELSAT 36D ahead of the satellite’s scheduled launch in the first half of 2024.
Airbus will place a dedicated UHF military communications hosted payload on board the EUTELSAT 36D telecommunications satellite.
Airbus will offer a UHF communications service to armed forces, particularly those of European countries and NATO allies, via the hosted payload on EUTELSAT 36D.
The UHF payload on EUTELSAT 36D will be operated from Airbus’s Network Operations Centre (NOC) in Toulouse.
EUTELSAT 36D will be built by Airbus based on the Eurostar Neo platform.
Satellogic projects it can provide imagery at a cost per square kilometer roughly 100 times cheaper than competitors such as Airbus, BlackSky, Maxar, and Planet.
ANYWAVES will provide S-band TT&C antennas on demand for the next similar satellites that Airbus intends to produce.
Airbus will place a dedicated UHF military communications hosted payload on board the EUTELSAT 36D telecommunications satellite.
The UHF payload on EUTELSAT 36D will be operated from Airbus’s Network Operations Centre in Toulouse.
EUTELSAT 36D will be built by Airbus based on the Eurostar Neo platform.