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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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EDRS-C stands for European Data Relay Satellite C and is operated by Airbus.
Viasat’s in-flight connectivity system will power JetBlue’s Fly‑Fi internet service across JetBlue’s new Airbus A220‑300 fleet.
Airbus’ anchor customer for EDRS-C is the European Commission, which uses the satellite for the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 series in the Copernicus program.
JetBlue selected Viasat’s in-flight connectivity system for a new fleet of 70 Airbus A220‑300 aircraft with an option for 50 additional aircraft.
Airbus plans to use the SpaceDataHighway to link its four Pleiades Neo Earth observation satellites following their launch in 2021.
Airbus won a contract from DARPA in January for the Blackjack program to examine how commercial smallsat constellations could be used for military applications.
OneWeb’s first six satellites were built at an Airbus factory in Toulouse, France and launched in February on a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana.
Airbus’s current imaging satellites include Spot-6 and Spot-7 with 1.5-meter resolution, Pleiades-1A and Pleiades-1B with 50-centimeter resolution, and four 30-centimeter-resolution Pleiades Neo satellites that Airbus is building.
The CO3D constellation is dual purpose, providing imagery to the French government including scientific and military users and imaging capacity for Airbus to commercialize.
Airbus seeks customers and partners to jointly invest in future CO3D satellites through purchases of satellites, launch services, or access to services.
Airbus’s four Pleiades Neo satellites were scheduled to launch in pairs, one in July 2020 and the second in early 2022 on Vega C missions.
Airbus is working with Swedish Space Corporation and Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) to strengthen their antenna networks to provide more downlink links at medium latitudes for CO3D imagery.
Airbus plans to use the four-satellite CO3D contract as a steppingstone to a larger constellation of 20-plus satellites.
Airbus and CNES plan to use data from the CO3D satellites to create a 3D map of the Earth’s landmass.
Inmarsat’s purchase of three high-capacity Ka-band satellites from Airbus was the largest satellite order industrywide since SES ordered seven O3b mPower medium-Earth orbit broadband satellites about a year and a half earlier.
Inmarsat’s latest satellite order will leverage some of the industrial preparations Airbus made to build OneWeb’s planned 648-satellite constellation.
The first of two sixth-generation Global Xpress satellites ordered from Airbus in late 2015 is slated to launch in 2020 on Japan’s H2A rocket.
The Inmarsat-leased ASBM payloads will precede the 2023 launch of three satellites Inmarsat ordered from Airbus Defense and Space in May.
The European-supplied Orion service module for Artemis-2 is being assembled by Airbus in Germany.
Qantas Airways uses high-speed Viasat satellite connectivity with Teledyne’s GroundLink avionics software across its domestic fleet of Boeing 737 and Airbus A330 aircraft with Wi-Fi to stream information over the Viasat system.