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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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Airbus Defence and Space was awarded the contract for the Hotbird 0.013 kg satellite in 2018 with an expected launch date of 2021.

PlanRelationshipsValue 4.0Feb 9, 2021Eutelsat awarded €100m contract for next-gen European navigation overlay service

Xenesis is scheduled to demonstrate the performance of its optical terminal in 2022 on Bartolomeo, Airbus Defence and Space’s external research platform on the International Space Station.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Feb 8, 2021Xenesis adopts revenue-sharing model for optical communications

Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space will each build six second-generation Galileo satellites under contracts to be formally signed at the end of January.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.5Jan 21, 2021Airbus, Thales win second-generation Galileo satellite contracts

The European Commission announced on 2021-01-20 that it will award contracts to Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space to build an initial set of next-generation Galileo navigation satellites.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.5Jan 21, 2021Airbus, Thales win second-generation Galileo satellite contracts

Intelsat placed an order on 2021-01-08 for two geostationary communications satellites from Airbus Defence and Space to support Intelsat’s aviation connectivity business.

RelationshipsPlanGeneralValue 4.5Jan 11, 2021Intelsat orders two satellites from Airbus

The two spacecraft ordered by Intelsat are from Airbus Defence and Space’s OneSat family of fully reconfigurable geostationary satellites.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.2Jan 11, 2021Intelsat orders two satellites from Airbus

Turkish satellite operator Turksat ordered Turksat 5A and Turksat 5B from Airbus Defence and Space in 2017.

RelationshipsValue 4.6Jan 7, 2021SpaceX launches Turksat 5A

CSO-2 was the 130th Airbus Defence and Space-built satellite launched by Arianespace.

GeneralValue 3.0Dec 29, 2020Arianespace Soyuz Launch Vehicle Transports CSO-2 EO Satellite To Orbit

With the launch of 36 OneWeb satellites on Flight ST29, Arianespace had orbited a total of 239 spacecraft from Airbus Defence and Space.

PlanValue 3.0Dec 18, 2020Arianspace’s Successful First Launch from Vostochny Cosmodrome

Arianespace’s backlog of payloads remaining to be launched for Airbus Defence and Space, excluding remaining OneWeb satellites, counts 22 additional payloads.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.0Dec 18, 2020Arianspace’s Successful First Launch from Vostochny Cosmodrome

FalconEye was the 23rd satellite launched by Arianespace produced jointly by Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space.

GeneralRelationshipsValue 3.0Dec 1, 2020Success for Soyuz Flight VS24 and United Arab Emirates

Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space built the Falcon Eye 2 satellite for the United Arab Emirates’ armed forces.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.2Dec 1, 2020Soyuz launches Falcon Eye 2 satellite for UAE

Falcon Eye 2 is the second of two satellites produced by Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space for the UAE.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 4.0Dec 1, 2020Soyuz launches Falcon Eye 2 satellite for UAE

SEOSAT-Ingenio was built by Airbus Defence and Space as a 750-kilogram Earth observation satellite.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.0Nov 20, 2020Avio CEO promises Vega’s rapid return to flight as CNES plots replacement satellite

SEOSAT-Ingenio was built by Airbus Defence and Space as a 750-kilogram Earth observation satellite intended to provide wide-field imagery for civil applications and is billed as Spain’s first Earth observation satellite.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.2Nov 16, 2020Vega launch fails after upper stage malfunction

The SEOSAT-Ingenio spacecraft is the first satellite built by an industrial consortium of Spanish space sector companies led by Airbus Defence and Space.

GeneralRelationshipsValue 3.5Nov 11, 2020A First … France’s Satellite to Observe Electromagnetic Phenomena Above Thunderstorms and Spain’s Scientific and EO Satellites

Airbus Defence and Space won the contract to build the Badr-8 satellite for Arabsat.

RelationshipsValue 4.2Nov 9, 2020C-band bonanza bails out sluggish year for satellite orders

Airbus Defence and Space won the contract to build the Thuraya-4 NGS satellite for Yahsat.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Nov 9, 2020C-band bonanza bails out sluggish year for satellite orders

Airbus Defence and Space won the contract to build the Optus-11 satellite for Optus.

RelationshipsValue 4.5Nov 9, 2020C-band bonanza bails out sluggish year for satellite orders

Airbus Defence and Space delivered 5 A400M military airlifters during the nine months ended 30 September 2020, and Luxembourg became a new operator.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.0Oct 29, 2020Airbus reports nine months 2020 results
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