Airbus Defence and Space

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

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Airbus Defence and Space will cut 2,362 positions, representing about 7% of its workforce.

GrowthGovernanceValue 2.0Feb 20, 2020Airbus, citing weak space market, to cut more than 2,300 jobs

GEO-KOMPSAT-2B has a mass of 3,400 kg and carries an ocean imaging payload from Airbus Defence and Space and an environmental spectrometer from Ball Aerospace.

CapabilityValue 5.0Feb 18, 2020Japanese communications satellite and South Korean weather satellite launch on Ariane 5

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has a mass of 1,800 kg and was built by Airbus Defence and Space for the European Space Agency.

CapabilityRelationshipsGeneralValue 4.5Feb 10, 2020Atlas launches Solar Orbiter mission

OneWeb is building its constellation at a new factory in Merritt Island, Florida, operated by OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture with Airbus Defence and Space.

GrowthRelationshipsValue 4.0Feb 6, 2020OneWeb plans April launch break to tweak satellite design

ESA is responsible for the Sentinel-6 satellite, which is being built by Airbus Defence and Space.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.0Jan 28, 2020Earth science mission named after former NASA official

Eutelsat 5 West B uses a Northrop Grumman GEOStar-2 platform with an all Ku-band payload from Airbus Defence and Space.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.4Jan 17, 2020Power loss halves Eutelsat 5 West B capacity, hosted payload spared

Airbus Defence and Space is providing Euclid’s payload module, including the mission telescope.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Jan 7, 2020ESA selects Arianespace for Euclid dark universe probe launch

Thales Alenia Space and Airbus Defence and Space are competing with Maxar to build the Telesat LEO constellation.

GeneralRelationshipsValue 3.0Dec 30, 2019Maxar to sell Canadian unit for $765 million

Phil Brownnett has worked at Airbus Defence and Space for more than 15 years in roles within the Earth observation business.

GovernanceValue 2.0Dec 18, 2019SSTL appoints new boss • InfoStellar adds Aussie ground stations to network

Phil Brownnett is currently the managing director of Airbus Defence and Space’s U.K. Geo Intelligence business.

GovernanceValue 3.6Dec 18, 2019SSTL appoints new boss • InfoStellar adds Aussie ground stations to network

Airbus Defence and Space is building the Measat-3d communications satellite scheduled to launch in 2021.

PlanCapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.0Nov 27, 2019Globalstar borrows $199M with EchoStar’s help • Measat buys Ariane 5 launch

Airbus Defence and Space, Maxar Technologies, and Thales Alenia Space are competing to build Telesat’s LEO broadband constellation after Maxar and Thales Alenia split to compete separately.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 4.2Nov 8, 2019Telesat LEO manufacturing decision bumped to 2020

Eutelsat-5 West B has a mass of 2,860 kg and uses a Northrop Grumman GEOStar-2 platform with an all Ku-band payload from Airbus Defence and Space.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.7Oct 9, 2019Northrop Grumman’s satellite servicer MEV-1, Eutelsat satellite, launch on ILS Proton

Telesat is expected to choose soon between Airbus Defence and Space and a team formed by Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space to start building its 300-satellite LEO broadband constellation.

PlanRelationshipsValue 4.0Sep 10, 2019GEO satellite orders are up, but full rebound remains to be seen

Measat ordered the Measat-3d satellite in May from Airbus Defence and Space.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Sep 10, 2019Asian satellite operators seeking diversification, say raw bandwidth sales not enough

Thales Alenia Space partnered with Maxar Technologies in competition with Airbus Defence and Space to build a megaconstellation for Canadian operator Telesat, which is seeking 300 low Earth orbit satellites.

RelationshipsPlanGeneralValue 4.5Sep 4, 2019Thales Group to restructure space business as order gap drives losses

Airbus Defence and Space has supported Astrocast in developing data protocols.

RelationshipsValue 3.0Sep 4, 2019Astrocast raises $9.2 million, grows target IoT constellation size to 80 satellites

Thales Alenia Space has won three of 10 commercial satellite orders in 2019: one from Indonesian operator PSN for the broadband satellite Satria and two SpainSat NG satellites for Hisdesat to be co-built with Airbus Defence and Space.

RelationshipsPlanFinancialValue 4.0Sep 4, 2019Thales Group to restructure space business as order gap drives losses

OneWeb inaugurated a Florida factory in July where it plans to build its constellation through a joint venture with Airbus Defence and Space.

RelationshipsGrowthPlanValue 4.5Aug 23, 2019Radio astronomers worried about OneWeb interference

Telesat has worked with Airbus Defence and Space and a consortium formed by Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space on designing the Telesat LEO constellation, with a downselect of a manufacturer expected by the end of the year.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.0Aug 7, 2019Telesat outlines spending plan for Canadian government’s LEO constellation investment

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