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Airbus Defence and Space

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division of Airbus Group (SE) specialized in the defense and aerospace industry

commercialFounded 2014
History · 1 eventJan 1, 2014 · Airbus Military, Astrium, and Cassidian merge to form Airbus Defence and Space
www.airbus.com/en/products-services/defence
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Angola has developed operational applications using Airbus Defence and Space satellite imagery for agriculture monitoring.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Mar 5, 2023Angola’s EO Angeo-1 satellite to be built by Airbus

Airbus Defence and Space was chosen to develop the Euclid Payload Module, including the telescope.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.2Mar 3, 2023ESA’s Euclid Successfully Undergoes EMC Test at Thales Alenia Space's Test Facility

Airbus Defence and Space selected Blacktree Technology Pty Ltd of Perth, Australia to provide the ground segment for an Airbus-funded UHF military communications hosted payload on-board a commercial telecommunications satellite manufactured by Airbus.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Feb 28, 2023Airbus selects Blacktree Technology to provide ground segment for UHF military satcom services across Australasia

The European Space Agency awarded a study contract to KSAT as prime contractor with partners DLR, Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace, and Airbus Defence and Space to study the efficient distribution of future ground station locations and the use of novel downlink protocols.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.5Feb 7, 2023KSAT awarded with ESA study for future Earth Observation dataflow architecture

The Vega C rocket failed to reach orbit on 2022-12-20, destroying two Pléiades Neo imaging satellites for Airbus Defence and Space.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.3Feb 7, 2023Virgin Orbit narrows down cause of LauncherOne failure

The KOMPSAT-6 payload was manufactured by LIG Nex1 under the technical assistance of Airbus Defence and Space.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Feb 1, 2023South Korea picks Vega C to launch satellite grounded by Russian sanctions

Inmarsat has agreed with Airbus Defence and Space to deliver the I-6 F2 satellite via a series of stepping stones across the Atlantic using Airbus’ A300-600ST Beluga aircraft.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.5Jan 23, 2023Inmarsat’s I-6 F2 satellite preparing for travel from France to Cape Canaveral for SpaceX launch

The Start Me Up manifest included Prometheus-2, two cubesats owned by the U.K. Ministry of Defence’s Defense Science & Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and co-funded with Airbus Defence and Space.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 4.0Jan 16, 2023UPDATE 4: Virgin Orbit updates their “Start Me Up” mission anomaly

Airbus Defence and Space has signed a contract with Poland to provide a geospatial intelligence system that includes the development, manufacture, launch, and in-orbit delivery of two high-performance optical Earth observation satellites.

RelationshipsCapabilityPlanValue 5.0Jan 6, 2023Airbus to Provide Poland with a High Resolution Optical Satellite System

Airbus Defence and Space signed a contract with Poland to provide a geospatial intelligence system that includes two high-performance optical electro-optical satellites.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.6Jan 4, 2023Airbus developing two EO satellites for Poland

Airbus Defence and Space delivered the first Sentinel-4/UVN multispectral instrument flight model to the European Space Agency.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.4Dec 21, 2022Airbus Delivers First Sentinel-4 Air Monitoring Instrument to ESA

Pléiades Neo 5 and 6 would be the 139th and 138th Airbus Defence and Space satellites launched by Arianespace respectively.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 3.8Dec 21, 2022UPDATE 4: Arianespace + ESA appoint an independent inquiry mission to investigate the Flight VB22 launch failure

Airbus Defence and Space delivered the first Sentinel-4/UVN multispectral instrument flight model to the European Space Agency.

RelationshipsCapabilityPlanValue 4.3Dec 14, 2022Airbus delivers the 1st Sentinel-4 air-monitoring instrument to ESA

Airbus Defence and Space ordered more than 70 ANYWAVES products linked to a contract signed directly with Loft Orbital and ordered 10 additional products for its CO3D constellation.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.6Dec 8, 2022ANYWAVES garners million€s in their initial financing round

Airbus Defence and Space selected the University of New South Wales in Sydney to conduct a 3-1/2-year research project to develop high-efficiency solar cells for use in space.

PlanCapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Dec 5, 2022Airbus + UNSW Sydney collaborate on research for high efficiency solar cells for use in space

Presagis has partnered with Airbus Defence and Space to provide Presagis customers direct access to the OneAtlas satellite image library from inside the V5D workspace.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 4.0Nov 29, 2022Presagis & Airbus Partner to Provide Access to OneAtlas Satellite Imagery

Large Earth-observation satellites, like those built by Airbus Defence and Space and Maxar, incur substantial costs to ensure accurate precision-pointing of onboard cameras.

FinancialCapabilityGeneralValue 2.6Nov 29, 2022Shay Har-Noy takes the helm at Edgybees

Presagis partnered with Airbus Defence and Space to give Presagis customers direct access to the OneAtlas satellite image library from inside the V5D workspace.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Nov 28, 2022Presagis + Airbus to provide VELOCITY 5D users direct access to OneAtlas satellite imagery

Airbus Defence and Space built and operates the Pléiades Neo constellation.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Oct 24, 2022Final two Pléiades Neo imagery satellites land in French Guiana

Tesat-Spacecom, a subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space based in Germany, plans to begin manufacturing optical communications terminals in the United States next year.

PlanGrowthRelationshipsValue 4.0Oct 18, 2022SDA slide reveals Tranche 0 optical terminal manufacturers
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