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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Pléiades Neo 3 will join Airbus’s existing fleet of optical and radar satellites with increased resolution, revisit, and coverage.
Superbird-9 will be based on Airbus’ OneSat reconfigurable payload platform, which can steer and reassign beams for different customers and services.
The Superbird-9 order is the first time Sky Perfect JSAT has ordered a satellite from Airbus.
Superbird-9 is the seventh software-defined OneSat satellite ordered from Airbus.
Pléiades Neo is entirely funded, manufactured, owned, and operated by Airbus.
Sky Perfect JSAT ordered the Superbird-9 spacecraft from Airbus for a launch in 2024.
Advanced Navigation has collaborated with major companies including Airbus, Boeing, Tesla, Google, Apple, and General Motors.
OneWeb operates a dedicated satellite factory in Florida through its joint venture OneWeb Satellites with Airbus.
When fully deployed, the Airbus Pléiades Neo constellation will comprise four identical satellites to provide commercial and institutional customers with high-resolution imaging.
Airbus will provide a turnkey solution for Superbird-9 including design and manufacture of the spacecraft, associated services and support for in-orbit operations and the ground segment, and an advanced digital suite to manage the digital payload and operate end-to-end satellite resources.
OneWeb Satellites is a joint venture between OneWeb and Airbus that is building OneWeb satellites in the U.S. facility.
Eutelsat Communications ordered a geostationary satellite called Eutelsat 36D from Airbus for a launch in 2024.
Intelsat signed a contract with Airbus at the end of 2020 for two satellites.
EUTELSAT 36D is based on the Airbus Eurostar Neo platform, which combines increased payload capacity, more efficient power and thermal control systems, reduced production time, and optimized costs.
Eutelsat 36D will have 70 physical Ku-band transponders, 18 kW of power, and is based on the Airbus Eurostar Neo platform.
Airbus expects 15 to 18 geostationary (GEO) satellite orders to be made in the year referenced in the report.
Apax Partners bought Marlink from Airbus in 2016 for an undisclosed sum.
Companies such as Airbus and NASA are among those planning demonstrations for optical communication technology.
Recent government initiatives like the Public-Private Partnership between Airbus and ESA's European Data Relay Services support the optical satcom industry.
Copernic aims to increase the operability of Comcept, the multi-satellite communications network designed by Airbus and commissioned by the French armed forces in 2017.