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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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Airbus’s contract for Turksat-5A and -5B is worth nearly $500,000,000 and includes a ground station, launch services, and in-orbit delivery.
Avanti’s Hylas-3 hosted payload is scheduled to launch in late July aboard Airbus and the European Space Agency’s European Data Relay Satellite C with the payload and host satellite launching on an Ariane 5 rocket.
Airbus is building six of the eight geostationary satellites ordered in 2019, including four built solely by Airbus (the Inmarsat-7s and Measat-3d) and two co-built with Thales Alenia Space (SpainSat NG 1 and 2).
The Inmarsat-7 satellites leverage the OneSat platform, a modular, design-to-manufacturer telecom satellite platform developed by Airbus.
Two Inmarsat-6 satellites are under construction by Airbus for launches in 2020 and 2021.
Hylas-3 is a 9 gigabits-per-second payload with steerable Ka-band beams included on Airbus and the European Space Agency’s European Data Relay Satellite C.
The two Eutelsat Hotbird broadcast satellites that Airbus is building will use reflectors different from ArianeGroup’s newly developed version.
Airbus is competing against a Maxar Technologies–Thales Alenia Space team for an estimated $3,000,000,000 contract to build Telesat’s megaconstellation.
ArianeGroup, the Airbus-Safran joint venture, builds satellite components through a division inherited from Airbus Defence and Space in 2015.
Airbus built an assembly line on Florida’s Space Coast to manufacture up to 648 satellites for OneWeb.
ArianeGroup received an order from Airbus Defence and Space for 10 reflector antennas for two Eutelsat Hotbird broadcast satellites that Airbus is building.
Hisdesat has agreed to buy two satellites from Airbus to replace aging military communications spacecraft.
The SpainSAT NG satellites will be based on Airbus’ Eurostar Neo geostationary telecommunications satellite platform.
Airbus designed the Eurostar Neo platform with the European Space Agency to be significantly cheaper than current satellites.
The DARPA contract has provided Airbus with experience working on U.S. defense programs and serves as a stepping stone to other potential projects.
The contract for the two replacement satellites was awarded to a consortium of Airbus and Thales Alenia Space with the bulk of the work to be done by Airbus.
Airbus’s U.S. plant currently builds only commercial satellites but could be expanded to produce classified spacecraft.
Airbus is preparing to produce 32 satellites every three weeks for the OneWeb broadband venture.
Airbus received a $2,900,000 contract from DARPA last fall to produce satellite buses for DARPA’s Blackjack program.
Boeing built five of Intelsat’s Epic-series satellites and supplied the payload for one Epic satellite that used a chassis from Airbus Defense and Space.