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.
Identity changes, mergers, acquisitions, splits, and transferred business lines.
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Airbus Group had used the market-facing name "Airbus" since Jan 2017, and Airbus Group SE's legal name change to Airbus SE was formally approved and completed at the Annual General Meeting on April 12, 2017, following the 2016 decision to merge the group holding structure with its largest division, Airbus Commercial Aircraft, under a single Airbus brand. Confirmed via Airbus press releases and AGM resolutions.
Airbus and Safran proposed a 50/50 joint venture in June 2014 to develop the Ariane 6 rocket and consolidate their launcher activities (also buying out CNES's interest in Arianespace). The JV, Airbus Safran Launchers, was established Jan 1, 2015 and finalized as a fully operational company June 30, 2016. On July 1, 2017, it was renamed ArianeGroup.
EADS N.V. was renamed Airbus Group effective Jan 2, 2014, aligning the parent company name with its dominant Airbus commercial-aircraft brand. Confirmed via contemporaneous trade press (Corporate Jet Investor, Composites Today).