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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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Airbus has been awarded a 10-year framework agreement called Copernic within the Syracuse IV program for the construction and upgrading of part of the ground segment for the telecommunications satellites used by the French Armed Forces.
Within the SYRACUSE IV programme, Airbus was awarded a 10-year framework agreement called Copernicus for the construction and upgrading of part of the ground segment for the telecommunications satellites used by the French Armed Forces.
The Copernicus project aims to increase the operability of Comcept, the multi-satellite communications network designed by Airbus and commissioned by the French Armed Forces in 2017.
Airbus provides very high-resolution satellite imagery to The Weather Company, an IBM business.
Airbus will launch Pléiades Neo in early 2021, providing 0.3 m resolution satellite imagery for use by IBM and other customers.
Airbus’ Portsmouth team delivered the EUTELSAT HOTBIRD 13F Communications Module to Toulouse where it joined the Stevenage- and Toulouse-produced Service Module.
The Galileo Competence Center of the German Aerospace Center (DLR-GK) and Airbus signed a €16.8 million contract for hosting DLR’s COMPASSO mission on the ISS Bartolomeo platform.
Airbus’ Eurostar Neo platform has increased payload capacity and more efficient power and thermal control systems compared with previous generations.
Airbus’ Portsmouth team delivered the EUTELSAT HOTBIRD 13F Communications Module to Toulouse at the start of January 2021.
Airbus developed the Eurostar Neo platform under the European Space Agency’s Partnership Projects together with the French space agency CNES and with strong support from the UK Space Agency and other European agencies.
Airbus teams finalised the Biomass structure build in the second half of 2020.
The French defence procurement agency (DGA) awarded Thales and Airbus a contract for a new joint tactical signals intelligence (SIGINT) system to upgrade French forces’ signals monitoring, direction finding, and spectrum analysis capabilities.
Airbus has used Viasat’s UHF SATCOM technology within the Skynet satellite network since 2012.
Airbus awarded Viasat’s UK entity an $8,500,000 (GBP 6.7 million) contract to upgrade the Ultra High Frequency satellite communications Network Control Stations delivering the UHF Skynet capability to the UK Ministry of Defence.
The first European Service Module rolled off the production line at Airbus’ facility in Bremen, Germany and was delivered to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in November 2018.
The €650 million contract brings the total number of European Service Modules to be built by Airbus to six.
Airbus signed a contract to provide a digital services focus for maintenance of the Air Refueling Boom System on the Royal Australian Air Force KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport (A330 MRTT) fleet.
Since the launch of SmartForce in 2018, Airbus has signed five agreements for co-development of new services and technologies.
The European Commission awarded two contracts for 12 second-generation Galileo satellites to Thales Alenia Space (Italy) and Airbus Defence & Space (Germany) for a total of EUR 1.47 billion.
Airbus Helicopters’ Flightlab provides an agile and efficient testbed to quickly test technologies for Airbus’ current helicopter range and for future fixed-wing aircraft or (e)VTOL platforms.