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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Thales Alenia Space and Airbus co-built the 5,600-kilogram TIBA-1 satellite, with Airbus supplying the bus and Thales Alenia Space providing the Ka-band payload.
Inmarsat plans three reprogrammable Inmarsat-7 satellites from Airbus with launches anticipated by 2023.
Airbus received telemetry from TIBA-1 indicating the satellite is healthy in orbit.
Airbus selected Vega to launch the European Space Agency’s Biomass satellite in 2022 and also procured the July launch of the UAE’s Falcon Eye 1.
Airbus is building the Biomass satellite, a 1,200-kilogram carbon dioxide-monitoring spacecraft, under an ESA contract awarded in 2016.
Bartolomeo is an Airbus Defense and Space external research platform designed to host commercial payloads outside the Columbus module on the International Space Station.
Xenesis plans to conduct a space-based demonstration of its Xen-Hub Optical Communications terminal in 2021 on Bartolomeo, the Airbus Defense and Space external research platform on the International Space Station.
Airbus will host the Xen-Hub terminal on the Bartolomeo platform and will provide certification, integration, and flight processing support, including participation in NASA’s ISS safety review process.
If the 2021 demonstration is successful, Airbus and Xenesis could provide space station customers and Bartolomeo platform users with commercial access to Xenesis’ ten-gigabit optical communications service.
Airbus expects to have four CO3D satellites in orbit in 2022 under a contract from July.
Airbus holds a stake in HawkEye 360, a company developing a smallsat constellation to geolocate radiofrequency signals.
Under the partnership, Airbus and Telespazio will sell any capacity on the Syracuse 4 satellites not being used by the French military and will use the resulting funds to partially offset the overall cost of the satellite system.
Airbus and Telespazio expect to offer X-band, military Ka-band, and X/Ka dual-band mode services for allied governments at speeds of up to several hundred megabits per second.
Airbus and Telespazio will establish a partnership to sell excess capacity on France’s upcoming Syracuse 4 military communications satellites.
Airbus and Thales Alenia Space executives forecast that 10 to 18 GEO satellites will be ordered annually for the next few years.
Inmarsat announced plans in May 2019 to buy three GX Flex satellites from Airbus.
Avanti has a hosted payload on Airbus’ and the European Space Agency’s EDRS-C lasercomm satellite.
Astrocast and Airbus developed a low-cost communications module and an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chipset that will be ready for sale in the second half of 2020.
Telesat had a prototype satellite in orbit from Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (an Airbus company) since January 2018.
Airbus is a new investor and distribution partner for HawkEye 360 and provides the company access to European markets.