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Airbus is working with Swedish Space Corporation and Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) to strengthen their antenna networks to provide more downlink links at medium latitudes for CO3D imagery.
Airbus’s current imaging satellites include Spot-6 and Spot-7 with 1.5-meter resolution, Pleiades-1A and Pleiades-1B with 50-centimeter resolution, and four 30-centimeter-resolution Pleiades Neo satellites that Airbus is building.
Airbus’s four Pleiades Neo satellites were scheduled to launch in pairs, one in July 2020 and the second in early 2022 on Vega C missions.
Airbus seeks customers and partners to jointly invest in future CO3D satellites through purchases of satellites, launch services, or access to services.
The CO3D constellation is dual purpose, providing imagery to the French government including scientific and military users and imaging capacity for Airbus to commercialize.
Airbus plans to use the four-satellite CO3D contract as a steppingstone to a larger constellation of 20-plus satellites.
Airbus and CNES plan to use data from the CO3D satellites to create a 3D map of the Earth’s landmass.
The first of two sixth-generation Global Xpress satellites ordered from Airbus in late 2015 is slated to launch in 2020 on Japan’s H2A rocket.
Inmarsat’s purchase of three high-capacity Ka-band satellites from Airbus was the largest satellite order industrywide since SES ordered seven O3b mPower medium-Earth orbit broadband satellites about a year and a half earlier.
Inmarsat’s latest satellite order will leverage some of the industrial preparations Airbus made to build OneWeb’s planned 648-satellite constellation.
Inmarsat purchased three high-capacity Ka-band satellites from Airbus Defence and Space at the end of May.
Falcon Eye 1 was built by Airbus Defence and Space with an imaging payload from Thales Alenia Space.
The Inmarsat-leased ASBM payloads will precede the 2023 launch of three satellites Inmarsat ordered from Airbus Defense and Space in May.
The European-supplied Orion service module for Artemis-2 is being assembled by Airbus in Germany.
The 6,330-kilogram T-16 satellite was built by Airbus Defence and Space.
Airbus’s contract for Turksat-5A and -5B is worth nearly $500,000,000 and includes a ground station, launch services, and in-orbit delivery.
Avanti’s Hylas-3 hosted payload is scheduled to launch in late July aboard Airbus and the European Space Agency’s European Data Relay Satellite C with the payload and host satellite launching on an Ariane 5 rocket.
The Inmarsat-7 satellites leverage the OneSat platform, a modular, design-to-manufacturer telecom satellite platform developed by Airbus.
Airbus is building six of the eight geostationary satellites ordered in 2019, including four built solely by Airbus (the Inmarsat-7s and Measat-3d) and two co-built with Thales Alenia Space (SpainSat NG 1 and 2).
On 2019-05-30, Inmarsat ordered three satellites from Airbus Defence and Space using a serial production method intended to enable faster build times for follow-on spacecraft.