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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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The Special Security Agreement requires Airbus’ U.S. business to be run by an independent board of directors that is not managed by Airbus corporate leadership in France.
Airbus plans to offer space technologies to NASA for exploration efforts and to partner with U.S. companies such as Lockheed Martin to deliver space technology to the U.S. government.
OneWeb Satellites is a joint venture created in 2016 by Airbus and OneWeb to build satellites for the OneWeb constellation.
ArianeGroup, a joint venture of Airbus and Safran, is the prime contractor building Ariane 6 for the European Space Agency.
The Copernicus Land Surface Temperature Monitoring (LSTM) mission will carry a high spatial-temporal resolution thermal infrared sensor to observe land-surface temperature for sustainable agriculture and drought prediction, with Airbus Defence and Space Spain leading development on a €375 million contract.
The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) mission will carry a multi-frequency radar altimeter and microwave radiometer to measure sea-ice thickness and overlying snow depth, with Airbus Defence and Space Germany leading development on a €300 million contract.
OneWeb Satellites is a joint venture of OneWeb and Airbus tasked with building OneWeb’s satellite constellation.
Optus is Airbus’ second customer for the OneSat platform following Inmarsat’s three-satellite order in 2019.
Airbus aims to reach an 18-month OneSat build time in 2022.
Optus-11 will be built on Airbus’ OneSat platform with a reconfigurable payload that can steer and reassign beams for different customers and services.
Airbus designed the OneSat platform with help from the European, French, and British space agencies as a smaller geostationary satellite that can eventually be built in 18 months.
Airbus U.S. Space and Defense, Inc. has provided U.S. customers with space, intelligence, defense, and homeland security systems for more than 50 years.
Airbus qualified for inclusion in CSDAP in the fall prior to 2025-05-06 but NASA had not determined what type of Earth observation data it would seek to acquire from Airbus as of that notice.
Airbus operates two Pleiades satellites, two Spot optical satellites, and three X-band radar satellites.
Airbus’ combination of 0.5-meter spatial resolution Pleiades-1A and Pleiades-1B visible and near-infrared imagery; 1.5-meter spatial resolution Spot-6 and Spot-7 visible and near-infrared imagery; and radar data from TerraSAR-X, Tandem-X, and Paz will provide improved digital elevation retrievals at monthly intervals for large portions of the Earth.
Orbital Insight uses computer vision to count cars on Beijing’s 4th Ring Road using imagery from Airbus’ Pleiades satellite.
OneWeb Satellites is a joint venture between OneWeb and Airbus created to build OneWeb’s constellation.
OneWeb's top four shareholders are Softbank (37.41%), Qualcomm (15.93%), Greg Wyler's 1110 Ventures LLC (11.94%), and Airbus (8.5%).
Bartolomeo will be operated by Airbus as a commercial platform in cooperation with the European Space Agency.
Bartolomeo is an external experiment platform developed by Airbus that is among the payloads on the CRS-20 Dragon and will be installed on the station’s Columbus module.