division of Airbus Group (SE) specialized in the defense and aerospace industry
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Airbus Defence and Space built the Anasis-2 using the Eurostar E3000 satellite bus.
Airbus Defence and Space will build the Skynet-6A satellite in the United Kingdom and arrange a 2025 launch.
Airbus Defence and Space’s German and Spanish divisions were awarded prime contracts totaling €675 million for two of the six Copernicus missions.
Faraday-1 included payloads for multiple customers, including Airbus Defence and Space’s Prometheus 1 reprogrammable software-defined radio payload.
Richard Franklin, managing director of Airbus Defence and Space U.K., is eager to work with OneWeb to grow the UK contribution to the business and support the next phase of OneWeb’s operations.
Airbus Defence and Space will build a geostationary communications satellite for Optus.
NASA plans to enter into a sole source Blanket Purchase Agreement with Airbus Defence and Space GEO Inc. for unique commercial optical and radar satellite imagery.
Airbus Defence and Space performs interferometry by revisiting locations in four to seven days with TerraSAR‑X and Tandem‑X operating in a constellation with Hisdesat’s Paz satellite.
Hisdesat ordered two SpainSat next-generation satellites from Airbus Defence and Space to replace Xtar-Eur and SpainSat in 2023.
OneWeb’s satellites were built in Merritt Island, Florida through a joint venture with Airbus Defence and Space.
Airbus Defence and Space designed the servicer to use all-electric propulsion and robotic elements to grab other satellites for refueling.
Airbus Defence and Space planned to launch a satellite servicer shortly after Northrop Grumman launched MEV-1 but backed away from those plans two years earlier because of uncertainty about the commercial market.
Telesat planned a 300-satellite LEO constellation and was evaluating manufacturers including Maxar Technologies, Thales Alenia Space, and Airbus Defence and Space.
Airbus Defence and Space will build three approximately 3,000-kilogram small GEO satellites for Inmarsat based on the OneSat platform.
Airbus Defence and Space’s revenue from space comprised 26% of its total revenue, which stood at 10,900,000,000 EUR for 2019 and was down 1.4% year over year.
Postponed defense contracts were a factor in Airbus Defence and Space’s planned layoffs.
Lower performance in space and efforts to support sales were key contributors to a 40% drop in Airbus Defence and Space’s adjusted earnings before interest and taxes.
Airbus Defence and Space’s adjusted earnings before interest and taxes were 565,000,000 EUR in 2019, down from 935,000,000 EUR in 2018.
Airbus Defence and Space employs 35,000 people within Airbus Group’s total workforce of 135,000 employees.
Airbus Defence and Space comprised about 15% of Airbus Group’s 2019 revenue, down from 17% in 2018.