Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc. is the U.S. public sector-serving arm of the European aerospace corporation, Airbus. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, it specializes in providing industry-leading solutions in satellites, geospatial intelligence, cyber capabilities, secure communications, and space exploration missions. The company is a trusted partner to the U.S. government, including NASA, DARPA, and the Department of Defense, and also offers military helicopters, unmanned aerial systems, and fixed-wing aircraft.
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The 12 finalist teams for the NGA award included Airbus U.S. Space and Defense, Anduril Industries, BlackSky Geospatial Solutions, Freedom Technology Solution Group, HII Mission Technologies, Orbital Insight, NV5 Geospatial, Planet Labs, Royce Geospatial Solutions, Space-Eyes (Channel Logistics), Striveworks, and Ursa Space Systems.
Airbus US Space and Defense, based in Arlington, Virginia, is a partner to Aalto and works directly with the U.S. Department of Defense and other U.S. government customers to address connectivity and remote sensing needs.
Since 2017, NASA’s Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program has awarded contracts to Airbus U.S., Maxar Technologies, Planet, Spire, Teledyne Brown Engineering, and the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota to share optical, hyperspectral, synthetic aperture radar, and other datasets.
Airbus U.S. Space & Defense completed a deal with Eutelsat OneWeb to purchase Eutelsat OneWeb’s 50% share of the Airbus OneWeb Satellites joint venture.
The National Reconnaissance Office signed agreements on 2023-12-05 with Airbus U.S. Space and Defense, Albedo Space, Hydrosat, Muon Space, and Turion Space for the Strategic Commercial Enhancements program.
SpinLaunch and Airbus U.S. plan to work together to qualify a variety of Airbus U.S. satellite systems for compatibility with the SpinLaunch orbital centrifuge and flight environment.
Mynaric has an agreement with Airbus U.S. Space and Defense to install a CONDOR 2022-03-02 laser terminal on the Bartolomeo external payload rack that Airbus operates on the International Space Station.
Under the contract, Airbus U.S. will supply 42 satellite bus platforms and support vehicle assembly, integration, and testing for Northrop Grumman.
The National Reconnaissance Office issued a Broad Agency Announcement to survey commercial synthetic aperture radar capabilities and awarded contracts in January to Airbus U.S., Capella, Iceye U.S., PredaSAR, and Umbra to evaluate commercial SAR capabilities.
The National Reconnaissance Office signed study agreements on 2022-01-20 with Airbus U.S., Capella Space, Iceye U.S., PredaSAR, and Umbra.
OneWeb operates a joint-venture satellite manufacturing facility with Airbus Space & Defense in Florida.
Debra Facktor is the head of Space Systems for Airbus US Space and Defense Inc.
Airbus Space and Defence manufactures European Service Modules at its facility in Bremen, Germany.
The European Space Agency signed a €650 million ($790,000,000) contract with Airbus Space and Defence to produce three additional service modules for NASA’s Orion crewed spacecraft.
CSO-2 was built by Airbus Space and Defence for the French military.
Airbus U.S. has executed a phase 1 contract for engineering work on the DARPA Blackjack program.