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Airbus

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commercialFounded 2014
Blagnac, France
www.airbus.com
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Airbus plans to provide an optical data downlink capacity of one to two terabytes per day for the Bartolomeo platform.

Mentioned as: airbusNarrative PlanOct 28, 2020Launchspace to test Debris Collection payload on ISS Bartolomeo platform

The ArgUS Carrier enables Airbus to offer the Bartolomeo service to customers that wish to fly smaller payloads often on a limited budget.

Mentioned as: AirbusTechnical ProductOct 28, 2020Launchspace to test Debris Collection payload on ISS Bartolomeo platform

An international team led by Airbus Defence and Space (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and including Fraunhofer IFAM (Dresden, Germany), Boston University (Massachusetts, USA), and Abengoa Innovación (Seville, Spain) demonstrated oxygen and metals production from simulated lunar regolith using the ROXY process.

Mentioned as: Airbus Defence and SpaceTechnical ProductOct 27, 2020Oxygen From Lunar Dust? Int’l Team Says Such Could Occur

Airbus Defence and Space led the international ROXY development team from its Friedrichshafen, Germany location.

Mentioned as: Airbus Defence and SpaceTechnical ProductOct 27, 2020Oxygen From Lunar Dust? Int’l Team Says Such Could Occur

Yahsat signed a contract with Airbus Defence and Space for the Thuraya-4 NGS satellite that includes an option for a second identical satellite, Thuraya-5 NGS.

Mentioned as: Airbus Defence and SpaceTechnical ProductOct 22, 2020Thuraya CEO shares plans for fleet update and view of market

Airbus Ventures, Seeds Capital, Silicon Solution Ventures, Nanyang Technological University’s Strategic Research Innovation Fund, and private investors provided funding of 2.5 million Singapore dollars ($1,850,000) to Zero-Error Systems.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipOct 21, 2020Airbus Ventures adds Zero-Error Systems to space portfolio

Airbus is under contract to provide service modules for the first three Orion spacecraft and is negotiating a contract for the next three Orion service modules.

Mentioned as: AirbusTechnical ProductOct 15, 2020ESA awards contracts for moon and Mars exploration

Airbus Defence and Space received an ESA contract to build the Earth Return Orbiter, the final mission of the three-mission NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return program.

Mentioned as: Airbus Defence and SpaceTechnical ProductOct 15, 2020ESA awards contracts for moon and Mars exploration

Airbus and Thales Alenia Space won contracts valued at more than $1,000,000,000 with ESA and the UK in the summer prior to The Space Report 2020 Q3.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipOct 14, 2020Global commercial space revenue reaches $336.89 billion

Airbus and Thales Alenia Space captured 10 of 17 satellite orders in 2019.

Mentioned as: AirbusTechnical ProductOct 14, 2020Global commercial space revenue reaches $336.89 billion

Telesat has not yet selected a bus manufacturer for its 298-satellite constellation and adapted the Airbus Arrow for the DARPA program to meet the Blackjack delivery schedule.

Mentioned as: AirbusTechnical ProductOct 14, 2020Telesat wins DARPA contract to manufacture satellite buses for Blackjack program

The two Blackjack satellites Telesat will produce are highly modified versions of the Airbus Arrow spacecraft.

Mentioned as: AirbusTechnical ProductOct 14, 2020Telesat wins DARPA contract to manufacture satellite buses for Blackjack program

Arabsat awarded Airbus a contract in August to build the BADR-8 satellite to provide C- and Ku-band coverage over Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipOct 2, 2020Momentus forges agreements with Skykraft and Mecano ID

Airbus Defence and Space contracted Mecano ID to support development of Teleo, an optical communications demonstration, on the BADR-8 geostationary communications satellite.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipOct 2, 2020Momentus forges agreements with Skykraft and Mecano ID

OneWeb Satellites, the joint venture with Airbus, operates a factory in Florida built to produce OneWeb’s constellation of about 650 broadband internet satellites.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipSep 30, 2020OneWeb secures additional financing as bankruptcy restructuring continues

Part of the earlier $140,000,000 in debtor-in-possession financing was used to enable OneWeb’s joint venture with Airbus to resume production of OneWeb satellites.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipSep 30, 2020OneWeb secures additional financing as bankruptcy restructuring continues

The European Space Agency awarded study contracts to Airbus and Eutelsat consortia to identify solutions and disruptive technologies to help European and Canadian satellite communications companies succeed.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipSep 23, 2020Airbus, Eutelsat win ESA study contracts • Leonardo CEO to lead industry group

The Airbus Defence and Space site in Friedrichshafen, Germany will head an industrial consortium of companies from 19 countries to deliver CRISTAL.

Mentioned as: Airbus Defence and SpaceTechnical ProductSep 23, 2020ESA selects Airbus to build CRISTAL

The European Space Agency selected Airbus to develop and build the Copernicus polar ice and snow topography mission CRISTAL.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipSep 23, 2020ESA selects Airbus to build CRISTAL

The European Space Agency signed a 300-million-euro contract with Airbus Defence and Space on 2020-09-21 to develop the Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) satellite for the European Union’s Copernicus program.

Mentioned as: AirbusOrg RelationshipSep 23, 2020Airbus signs $350 million contract to build CRISTAL ice-monitoring satellite for EU
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