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Airbus Defence and Space’s German and Spanish divisions were awarded prime contracts totaling €675 million for two of the six Copernicus missions.
The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) mission will carry a multi-frequency radar altimeter and microwave radiometer to measure sea-ice thickness and overlying snow depth, with Airbus Defence and Space Germany leading development on a €300 million contract.
Faraday-1 included payloads for multiple customers, including Airbus Defence and Space’s Prometheus 1 reprogrammable software-defined radio payload.
Richard Franklin, managing director of Airbus Defence and Space U.K., is eager to work with OneWeb to grow the UK contribution to the business and support the next phase of OneWeb’s operations.
OneWeb Satellites is a joint venture of OneWeb and Airbus tasked with building OneWeb’s satellite constellation.
Optus-11 will be built on Airbus’ OneSat platform with a reconfigurable payload that can steer and reassign beams for different customers and services.
Optus is Airbus’ second customer for the OneSat platform following Inmarsat’s three-satellite order in 2019.
Airbus designed the OneSat platform with help from the European, French, and British space agencies as a smaller geostationary satellite that can eventually be built in 18 months.
Airbus aims to reach an 18-month OneSat build time in 2022.
Airbus Defence and Space will build a geostationary communications satellite for Optus.
Airbus’ combination of 0.5-meter spatial resolution Pleiades-1A and Pleiades-1B visible and near-infrared imagery; 1.5-meter spatial resolution Spot-6 and Spot-7 visible and near-infrared imagery; and radar data from TerraSAR-X, Tandem-X, and Paz will provide improved digital elevation retrievals at monthly intervals for large portions of the Earth.
Airbus qualified for inclusion in CSDAP in the fall prior to 2025-05-06 but NASA had not determined what type of Earth observation data it would seek to acquire from Airbus as of that notice.
Airbus operates two Pleiades satellites, two Spot optical satellites, and three X-band radar satellites.
NASA plans to enter into a sole source Blanket Purchase Agreement with Airbus Defence and Space GEO Inc. for unique commercial optical and radar satellite imagery.
Airbus Defence and Space performs interferometry by revisiting locations in four to seven days with TerraSAR‑X and Tandem‑X operating in a constellation with Hisdesat’s Paz satellite.
Infostellar raised the $3,500,000 through a convertible bond sale to existing investors Airbus Ventures and the Sony Innovation Fund.
Infostellar raised $3,500,000 in new funds on 2020-04-29 from Airbus Ventures and other investors.
Orbital Insight uses computer vision to count cars on Beijing’s 4th Ring Road using imagery from Airbus’ Pleiades satellite.
Hisdesat ordered two SpainSat next-generation satellites from Airbus Defence and Space to replace Xtar-Eur and SpainSat in 2023.
OneWeb Satellites is a joint venture between OneWeb and Airbus created to build OneWeb’s constellation.