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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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Hylas-3 is a hosted payload with eight steerable beams that launched in mid-2019 as part of Airbus and the European Space Agency’s EDRS-C satellite.
Thuraya-4 NGS will be built on an Airbus Eurostar Neo satellite platform with a 12-meter L-band antenna and a payload processor that can adjust power levels for 250 communications beams.
Airbus is designing Badr-8 for a design life that exceeds 15 years.
Airbus U.S. has executed a phase 1 contract for engineering work on the DARPA Blackjack program.
Airbus U.S. operates under a Special Security Agreement that requires it to be run by an independent board of directors that does not report to the parent company in France.
Airbus, which owns 50 percent of OneWeb Satellites, has kept the Florida factory open and is preparing to ramp up production to eight satellites per week later 2020.
OHB bested an Airbus and Thales Alenia Space consortium in 2011 to build the Galileo first-generation constellation and has been the prime contractor for the satellites since then.
Airbus expects the Galileo second-generation satellites to be a significantly different system with upgraded technologies including payload processing, beam forming networks, active antennas, and electric propulsion on a larger platform.
Xtar has a memorandum of understanding with Hisdesat to use capacity on the SpainSat NG satellites that Airbus is building.
Airbus built Eutelsat Quantum in the United Kingdom on a platform from its subsidiary Surrey Satellite Technology Limited.
Hughes Network Systems invested $50,000,000 in OneWeb in 2015 alongside Airbus Group, Bharti Enterprises, Coca-Cola, Intelsat, Qualcomm, Totalplay, and the Virgin Group as part of OneWeb’s $500,000,000 Series A round.
OneWeb builds its satellites at a purpose-built $85,000,000 factory in Florida through the joint venture OneWeb Satellites with Airbus.
The 2.55-billion-euro ESA funding is sufficient for Airbus, Thales Alenia Space, and OHB to start building the Copernicus satellites.
Airbus shipped the Anasis-2 spacecraft in mid-June from its facility in Toulouse to Cape Canaveral.
Airbus and OneWeb have a joint venture called OneWeb Satellites that is tasked with building the OneWeb megaconstellation.
Airbus manages the Skynet-5 network and its management contract expires in 2022.
Airbus invested in HawkEye 360’s Series B funding round and that investment created distribution opportunities for HawkEye 360.
Airbus plans to build supply chains in the U.S. to support programs long term.
Airbus has a 50% stake in OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture created in 2016 between Airbus and OneWeb to build hundreds of satellites for the OneWeb constellation.
The Airbus factory in Florida will resume producing satellites for OneWeb under its new ownership.