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Isar Aerospace raised $17,000,000 in a Series A round led by Airbus Ventures and Earlybird Venture Capital.
Airbus Defence and Space is building the Measat-3d communications satellite scheduled to launch in 2021.
Inmarsat’s Inmarsat-6 F1 is scheduled to launch in 2020 on a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-2A rocket and Inmarsat-6 F2 is scheduled for launch in 2021 on a to-be-announced launcher, with both satellites sourced from Airbus.
Airbus received telemetry from TIBA-1 indicating the satellite is healthy in orbit.
Inmarsat plans three reprogrammable Inmarsat-7 satellites from Airbus with launches anticipated by 2023.
Airbus procured the TIBA-1 satellite’s launch on behalf of the government of Egypt.
Thales Alenia Space and Airbus co-built the 5,600-kilogram TIBA-1 satellite, with Airbus supplying the bus and Thales Alenia Space providing the Ka-band payload.
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.
Airbus selected Vega to launch the European Space Agency’s Biomass satellite in 2022 and also procured the July launch of the UAE’s Falcon Eye 1.
Airbus is building the Biomass satellite, a 1,200-kilogram carbon dioxide-monitoring spacecraft, under an ESA contract awarded in 2016.
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.
Xenesis plans to conduct a space-based demonstration of its Xen-Hub Optical Communications terminal in 2021 on Bartolomeo, the Airbus Defense and Space external research platform on the International Space Station.
Airbus will host the Xen-Hub terminal on the Bartolomeo platform and will provide certification, integration, and flight processing support, including participation in NASA’s ISS safety review process.
If the 2021 demonstration is successful, Airbus and Xenesis could provide space station customers and Bartolomeo platform users with commercial access to Xenesis’ ten-gigabit optical communications service.
Bartolomeo is an Airbus Defense and Space external research platform designed to host commercial payloads outside the Columbus module on the International Space Station.
Airbus expects to have four CO3D satellites in orbit in 2022 under a contract from July.
Airbus holds a stake in HawkEye 360, a company developing a smallsat constellation to geolocate radiofrequency signals.
Airbus and Telespazio will establish a partnership to sell excess capacity on France’s upcoming Syracuse 4 military communications satellites.
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.
Airbus and Telespazio expect to offer X-band, military Ka-band, and X/Ka dual-band mode services for allied governments at speeds of up to several hundred megabits per second.