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Airbus

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commercialFounded 2014
Blagnac, France
www.airbus.com
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On 2019-03-19 in Cedar Park, Texas, Firefly Aerospace executed a Memorandum of Understanding with Airbus Defence and Space to develop new space launch solutions for Airbus customers.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipMar 19, 2019Airbus Defence and Space Enters Memorandum of Understanding with Firefly Aerospace Airbus and Firefly to Partner on Launch Solutions for Constellations

OneWeb and Airbus Defence and Space designed OneWeb satellites to deliver 10 gigabits per second of capacity in spacecraft the size of dishwashers.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipMar 18, 2019How OneWeb plans to make sure its first satellites aren’t its last

OneWeb will start large-scale satellite production in the spring at a new factory in Exploration Park, Florida operated by the Airbus joint venture OneWeb Satellites.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipMar 18, 2019OneWeb raises $1.25 billion from returning investors

OneWeb satellites cost $1,000,000 each to produce according to Airbus Group leadership.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipMar 18, 2019How OneWeb plans to make sure its first satellites aren’t its last

OneWeb received an initial $500,000,000 in 2015 from Airbus, Hughes Network Systems, Intelsat, Qualcomm, Virgin Group, Coca-Cola, Grupo Salinas, and Bharti Airtel.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipMar 18, 2019How OneWeb plans to make sure its first satellites aren’t its last

Bulent Altan briefly worked at Airbus Defence and Space on digital transformation and innovation after leaving SpaceX in 2014.

Mentioned as: AirbusNarrative GeneralMar 14, 2019Former SpaceX Starlink exec joins German lasercomm startup

Telesat is actively preparing a low Earth orbit broadband constellation and expects to choose between manufacturers Airbus Defence and Space and a Maxar Technologies–Thales Alenia Space team later in the year.

Mentioned as: Airbus Defence and SpaceOrg RelationshipMar 7, 2019Inmarsat to place GX Flex next-gen satellite system order this year

Airbus Defence and Space is building Inmarsat-6A and Inmarsat-6B with high-throughput Ka-band and low-throughput L-band payloads.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipMar 7, 2019Inmarsat to place GX Flex next-gen satellite system order this year

OneWeb secured launches, built ground stations, and established infrastructure to build two satellites a day through a joint venture with Airbus Defence and Space.

Mentioned as: Airbus Defence and SpaceTechnical ProductFeb 27, 2019OneWeb’s first six satellites in orbit following Soyuz launch

OneWeb Satellites, the joint venture of OneWeb and Airbus, built the first 10 OneWeb satellites in Toulouse, France.

Mentioned as: AirbusTechnical ProductFeb 27, 2019OneWeb’s first six satellites in orbit following Soyuz launch

Airbus generated €64 billion in revenues in 2018 and employed around 134,000 people in 2018.

Mentioned as: AirbusTechnical ProductFeb 26, 2019Astrobotic Team Selected by ESA to Study Delivery of Lunar Resources Mission

A team led by Airbus has been competitively selected by the European Space Agency to study delivery of a payload package onboard Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander around 2025.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipFeb 26, 2019Astrobotic Team Selected by ESA to Study Delivery of Lunar Resources Mission

Goonhilly Earth Station Limited of the United Kingdom is a member of the ESA study team led by Airbus and Astrobotic.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipFeb 26, 2019Astrobotic Team Selected by ESA to Study Delivery of Lunar Resources Mission

Astrobotic is the only company selected by both NASA CLPS and by Airbus for this competitively awarded ESA mission study.

Mentioned as: AirbusTechnical ProductFeb 26, 2019Astrobotic Team Selected by ESA to Study Delivery of Lunar Resources Mission

Exploration Park hosts a Blue Origin factory for producing the New Glenn rocket and a OneWeb Satellites factory where OneWeb and Airbus will build satellites for OneWeb’s broadband constellation.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipFeb 23, 2019Firefly to establish factory and launch site in Florida

Airbus will spend 25,000,000 EUR revamping facilities in Germany for solar array production and optical satellite instruments.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipFeb 13, 2019FIRST UP Satcom | Six Protons and an Angara launching this year • Airbus invests $25M in German plant

Airbus will expand a solar array production facility from 800 square meters to 5,500 square meters and introduce a robotic assembly line in Germany.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipFeb 13, 2019FIRST UP Satcom | Six Protons and an Angara launching this year • Airbus invests $25M in German plant

FASat-Charlie was built by Airbus and has a 1.45-meter-resolution imaging capability.

Mentioned as: AirbusTechnical ProductFeb 11, 2019Chile weighs commercial replacement for lone spy satellite

Airbus is building 600 to 900 OneWeb satellites through a Florida-based joint venture called OneWeb Satellites.

Mentioned as: airbusOrg RelationshipFeb 11, 2019Telesat LEO contenders pitch Canadian production to sweeten deal

Airbus and Maxar Technologies are developing commercial satellite constellations that promise 30-centimeter-resolution imagery.

Mentioned as: airbusTechnical ProductFeb 11, 2019Chile weighs commercial replacement for lone spy satellite
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