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The European Space Agency performed a two-month technical and financial evaluation and recommended awarding the next-generation Galileo contracts to Airbus and Thales.
Airbus built the four Skynet 5 satellites, which were launched as Skynet 5A, 5B, 5C, and 5D between 2007 and 2012, and all remain operating in orbit.
The service orders for the two ESA payload missions on Bartolomeo amount to 6,500,000 EUR and are the first under a new framework agreement between ESA and Airbus that pre-defines overall commercial conditions for ESA payload missions on Bartolomeo.
Bartolomeo is an Airbus investment into ISS infrastructure that enables hosting of up to 12 external payloads in the space environment.
Airbus delivered Skynet 5 as a full-service outsource contract that reduced technical and service risks for the UK Ministry of Defence and extended satellite lifespans beyond design life.
Airbus was awarded the Skynet 6A contract in July 2020.
The European Space Agency and Airbus agreed service orders for two independent payload missions to be launched to the Bartolomeo payload hosting facility on the International Space Station in 2022 and 2024.
Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands will offer commercially viable optical ground stations that will be used by Swedish Space Corporation in delivering ground network services.
Airbus’ Bartolomeo platform is attached to the European Columbus Module of the International Space Station and is the station’s newest payload hosting platform.
Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space will each build six second-generation Galileo satellites under contracts to be formally signed at the end of January.
Airbus’ Bartolomeo platform was launched and robotically attached to the ISS Columbus Module in 2020.
Complete Skynet 6A satellite integration will take place at Airbus facilities in the UK.
Maarten Schippers is CEO at Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands and supports working with Swedish Space Corporation to build optical ground station capabilities.
Teams from across the space and ground segments in Airbus worked closely with UK Ministry of Defence counterparts to keep the Skynet 6A program on track.
As an evolution of the platform, Airbus will provide optical data downlink capacity of one to two terabytes per day for Bartolomeo payloads.
Swedish Space Corporation and Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands signed a Memorandum of Understanding for collaborative activities regarding ground equipment for space-to-ground optical communication.
The European Commission announced on 2021-01-20 that it will award contracts to Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space to build an initial set of next-generation Galileo navigation satellites.
Complete integration of the Skynet 6A satellite will take place at Airbus facilities in the UK.
Teams from across Airbus’ space and ground segments worked closely with UK Ministry of Defence counterparts to keep the Skynet 6A program on track.
Airbus launched the Skynet 5A, 5B, 5C, and 5D satellites between 2007 and 2012.