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Airbus

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commercialFounded 2014
Blagnac, France
www.airbus.com
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NovaSAR-1 is a technology demonstration mission carrying a synthetic aperture radar payload supplied by Airbus Defence and Space.

Mentioned as: AirbusNarrative GeneralSep 17, 2018India’s PSLV launches two British satellites for SSTL

Airbus Defence and Space assembled a database of orbiting satellites that will need to be replaced by 2025.

Mentioned as: Airbus Defence and SpaceTechnical ProductSep 14, 2018Airbus forecasts 15 to 18 commercial GEO orders as new annual norm

Airbus and Maxar’s SSL each won two of the 2018 normal commercial GEO contracts.

Mentioned as: AirbusTechnical ProductSep 14, 2018Airbus forecasts 15 to 18 commercial GEO orders as new annual norm

Airbus Defense and Space’s Intelligence business announced a strategic partnership on 2018-09-12 with Orbital Insight to build a suite of geospatial analytics services and tools.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipSep 12, 2018Airbus, Orbital Insight forge alliance

The partnership between Airbus Defense and Space and Orbital Insight was developed over the 12 months prior to the 2018-09-12 announcement.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipSep 12, 2018Airbus, Orbital Insight forge alliance

OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture between OneWeb and Airbus Defence and Space, is building the first 10 OneWeb satellites in Toulouse, France.

Mentioned as: Airbus Defence and SpaceTechnical ProductSep 12, 2018Amid concerns, OneWeb gets vague about constellation’s cost

Airbus Defense and Space will obtain Orbital Insight’s analytics services through the partnership with Orbital Insight.

Mentioned as: Airbus Defense and SpaceTechnical ProductSep 12, 2018Airbus, Orbital Insight forge alliance

Telesat awarded two study contracts this summer to Airbus and to a team of Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space to conduct detailed analyses of how to build the constellation and associated ground systems.

Mentioned as: AirbusTechnical ProductSep 11, 2018Telesat says ideal LEO constellation is 292 satellites, but could be 512

Two Inmarsat-6 satellites are under construction by Airbus Defence and Space with launch dates planned for 2020 and 2021 and both satellites include L-band and high-throughput Ka-band payloads.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipSep 10, 2018Inmarsat battles to maintain leadership in connecting the high seas

Satellite operators ordered seven geostationary communications satellites last year, or eight if including the un-competed Skynet-6A procured by Britain’s Ministry of Defence from Airbus.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipSep 7, 2018Sener eyes larger stake in satellite component market

OneWeb is building 900 satellites through a joint venture with Airbus Defence and Space.

Mentioned as: Airbus Defence and SpaceTechnical ProductAug 27, 2018OneWeb, Arianespace target December-February for first Soyuz launch

Airbus Defense and Space built the Aeolus satellite in the U.K. with two light detection and ranging (lidar) instruments from Selex Galileo of Italy.

Mentioned as: Airbus Defense and SpaceOrg RelationshipAug 22, 2018Arianespace Vega launches long-awaited Aeolus wind-mapping satellite

ESA and Airbus shipped the Aeolus satellite from Europe to French Guiana by boat instead of by plane to avoid damage from air pressure variations.

Mentioned as: airbusTechnical ProductAug 22, 2018Arianespace Vega launches long-awaited Aeolus wind-mapping satellite

Descartes Labs announced on 2018-08-15 a partnership with Airbus to obtain high-resolution global imagery.

Mentioned as: airbusOrg RelationshipAug 16, 2018Descartes Labs forms imagery partnership with Airbus

Descartes Labs ingested the entire Airbus OneAtlas global Basemap catalog onto its platform so customers can build machine-learning models directly on Airbus OneAtlas data at scale.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipAug 16, 2018Descartes Labs forms imagery partnership with Airbus

Airbus OneAtlas global Basemap data has a resolution of 1.5 m per pixel globally and 0.5 m per pixel for the largest 2,600 cities.

Mentioned as: airbusNarrative GeneralAug 16, 2018Descartes Labs forms imagery partnership with Airbus

David Robson spent 25 years as head of advanced payloads at EADS Astrium (now Airbus Defence and Space), according to LinkedIn.

Mentioned as: AirbusNarrative GeneralAug 3, 2018MEO startup Methera plans “high density” HTS constellation

Eutelsat is the first customer for Airbus’ Eurostar NEO platform, which Airbus developed with funding from the French and European space agencies.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipAug 1, 2018Eutelsat to buy two all-electric satellites from Airbus to replace Hotbird constellation

Telesat awarded a second constellation design contract on 2018-08-01 to Airbus Defence and Space to begin studies on a proposed system of 117 low Earth orbit communications satellites.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipAug 1, 2018Telesat picks Airbus Defence and Space as second constellation design partner

The new Airbus spacecraft will replace Eutelsat’s Hotbird broadcast satellite cluster, through which Eutelsat delivers more than 1,000 television channels to viewers in Europe, the Middle East, and Northern Africa.

Mentioned as: airbusTechnical ProductAug 1, 2018Eutelsat to buy two all-electric satellites from Airbus to replace Hotbird constellation
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