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 reported capital expenditure of around €1.2 billion for the nine months ended 30 September 2020, down by around €0.3 billion year-on-year.
Airbus recognised €-358 million related to the A380 programme cost in consolidated EBIT Adjustments for the nine months ended 30 September 2020.
Airbus, the European Space Agency, NASA, and the ISS National Laboratory operate the Bartolomeo platform through a partnership.
Airbus’ Bartolomeo platform is designed to host payloads and scientific experiments and was attached to the ISS Columbus module in April.
The ArgUS Carrier enables Airbus to offer the Bartolomeo service to customers that wish to fly smaller payloads often on a limited budget.
Airbus plans to provide an optical data downlink capacity of one to two terabytes per day for the Bartolomeo platform.
Airbus is under contract to provide service modules for the first three Orion spacecraft and is negotiating a contract for the next three Orion service modules.
The two Blackjack satellites Telesat will produce are highly modified versions of the Airbus Arrow spacecraft.
Telesat has not yet selected a bus manufacturer for its 298-satellite constellation and adapted the Airbus Arrow for the DARPA program to meet the Blackjack delivery schedule.
Airbus and Thales Alenia Space won contracts valued at more than $1,000,000,000 with ESA and the UK in the summer prior to The Space Report 2020 Q3.
Airbus and Thales Alenia Space captured 10 of 17 satellite orders in 2019.
Arabsat awarded Airbus a contract in August to build the BADR-8 satellite to provide C- and Ku-band coverage over Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
Part of the earlier $140,000,000 in debtor-in-possession financing was used to enable OneWeb’s joint venture with Airbus to resume production of OneWeb satellites.
OneWeb Satellites, the joint venture with Airbus, operates a factory in Florida built to produce OneWeb’s constellation of about 650 broadband internet satellites.
Thales Alenia Space signed an 88-million-euro subcontract with Airbus on 2020-09-21 to build CRISTAL’s main instrument.
The European Space Agency selected Airbus to develop and build the Copernicus polar ice and snow topography mission CRISTAL.
The Airbus and Eutelsat consortia will study the pros and cons of large geostationary satellites, smaller low Earth orbit satellites, satellite ground systems, and other topics for the European Space Agency.
The European Space Agency awarded study contracts to Airbus and Eutelsat consortia to identify solutions and disruptive technologies to help European and Canadian satellite communications companies succeed.
Thales Alenia Space signed an 88-million-euro contract with Airbus to develop two flight-ready IRIS instruments for the CRISTAL mission.
Optus, Yahsat and Arabsat each ordered a satellite from Airbus in 2020, and Hispasat ordered a satellite from Thales Alenia Space.