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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Novespace, a French company, operates a parabolic flight service called Air Zero G on an Airbus A310.
Inmarsat purchased three OneSat satellites from Airbus in 2019.
Airbus finished 2019 with six GEO orders, including three for Inmarsat, one for Measat, and two to be built as lead partner with Thales Alenia Space for Hisdesat.
Three manufacturers—Airbus, Boeing, and Thales Alenia Space—introduced small geostationary satellites weighing 2,000 to 3,000 kg that emphasize lightweight design and reprogrammability.
Airbus Group started consultations on 2020-02-19 with the European Works Council regarding the proposed job cuts.
Airbus Group generated 70,500,000,000 EUR in revenue in 2019, up from 63,700,000,000 EUR in 2018.
Airbus Group proposes cutting 829 jobs in Germany, 630 jobs in Spain, 404 jobs in France, 357 jobs in the United Kingdom, and 142 jobs elsewhere.
Airbus Defence and Space employs 35,000 people within Airbus Group’s total workforce of 135,000 employees.
Airbus Defence and Space comprised about 15% of Airbus Group’s 2019 revenue, down from 17% in 2018.
OneWeb experienced a larger-than-expected learning curve transitioning from building the first 10 satellites at an Airbus factory in France to producing two satellites per day at the Florida factory.
Airbus and HawkEye 360 will deliver geospatial intelligence solutions that were not previously commercially available.
HawkEye 360 formed a strategic partnership with Airbus on 2020-01-20 in Herndon, Virginia.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) provided approval for Airbus to close its investment transaction on 2020-01-08.
HawkEye 360 will offer Airbus’s earth observation optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) products jointly with HawkEye 360’s RF solutions to serve defense and intelligence customers.
The Airbus–HawkEye 360 partnership enables fusion of complementary EO, SAR, and RF data sets to support a tip-and-cueing Multi-INT system for global situational awareness.
Airbus participated as an investor in HawkEye 360’s $70,000,000 Series B funding in August 2019.
London-based Seraphim Capital manages over $100,000,000 in capital and counts Airbus, Teledyne, and Telespazio among its backers.
Airbus arranged the launch contracts for both Falcon Eye satellites as part of a contract it signed with the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces in 2013.
Airbus procured the TIBA-1 satellite’s launch on behalf of the government of Egypt.
Inmarsat’s Inmarsat-6 F1 is scheduled to launch in 2020 on a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-2A rocket and Inmarsat-6 F2 is scheduled for launch in 2021 on a to-be-announced launcher, with both satellites sourced from Airbus.