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The Airbus OneSat platform is designed to reshape beams, adjust capacity, and reconfigure missions while in orbit.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions concluded the first Factory Acceptance Test for its EPOCH Command and Control software integrated with the Airbus OneSat software-defined satellite platform on December 30, 2025.
Aerospacelab and Airbus Defence and Space have been identified as primary candidates for the LEO-High segment under the procurement plan.
As of late 2025, the main competitors for the LEO segment are Airbus Defence and Space of France and Aerospacelab of Belgium.
Leonardo, Airbus, and Thales have formed a joint venture to address European industrial fragmentation.
One entity in the Airbus-Thales-Leonardo joint venture can dictate terms, timelines, and technology access.
Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales are partnering to form a new company to enhance Europe’s strategic autonomy in space.
In January 2024, Airbus acquired Eutelsat's 50% stake in Airbus OneWeb Satellites joint venture.
A memorandum of understanding to merge the space divisions of Airbus, Thales, and Leonardo was signed in October 2025.
SpaceSail signed an MoU with Airbus to integrate the Thousand Sails NGSO constellation into Airbus’s HBCPlus offering.
Airbus Defence and Space GmbH commercializes the TanDEM-X data, which is also used by ministries such as the Federal Ministry of Defence.
Airbus is a participating company at Space Summit 2026.
Avianca, part of Abra Group, has 10 Airbus A320s in service equipped with SES’s new electronically steered array antenna.
Private companies such as ArianeGroup, Airbus, Thales, Leonardo, and Rolls-Royce command strategic leverage over European space supply chains.
The in-flight connectivity service will be retrofitted to more than 100 Abra Group aircraft, including Airbus and Boeing planes, in the coming years.
The French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) awarded Airbus Defence and Space a framework contract valued at €50 million to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into the French Armed Forces’ critical weapon and information systems.
This award builds on Airbus’s expanding role in French military space and ground segment architecture.
Airbus is working directly with AMIAD to deploy algorithms capable of processing massive datasets from satellites, radars, and drones securely within national infrastructure.
A second option is to leverage a commercial low Earth destination with a European component, such as Starlab, a joint venture between Airbus and Voyager Space.
Space imaging companies, including Airbus, Vantor, and Planet Labs, operate constellations of low-orbit satellites that can capture images of the Earth's surface with a resolution as fine as 30 centimeters.