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The Copernic project aims to increase the operability of Comcept, the multi-satellite communications network designed by Airbus and commissioned by the French armed forces in 2017.
Airbus manages logistics for the UH-72 Lakota from its facility in Dallas, Texas.
The UH-72B is produced at Airbus’ facility in Columbus, Mississippi.
The Contractor Logistics Support contract with the U.S. Army is the largest helicopter performance-based support contract managed by Airbus worldwide.
Airbus developed and built the LISA Pathfinder mission as the prime contractor.
Christian Lindener joined Airbus in 2019 and most recently led internal Innovation Management and external Company Building of all Group Divisions as Head of Airbus Scale.
Airbus successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review for its system concept for the second-generation Galileo navigation satellites.
The remainder of EarthDaily Analytics’ satellites will be built in Merritt Island, Florida at an automated production factory operated by Airbus through a joint venture with OneWeb.
The Florida Airbus facility near Cape Canaveral cost $85,000,000 and opened in 2019.
Intelsat 42 and Intelsat 43 are based on Airbus’ OneSat platform and are slated to launch in 2023.
Airbus is building three more Global Xpress satellites (GX7, GX8, and GX9) for Inmarsat to be launched to geostationary orbit in 2023.
Airbus-designed OneWeb satellites are currently being produced at the Airbus OneWeb Satellites facility in Florida, USA.
OneWeb’s current generation of satellites are built by a joint venture with Airbus at a factory in Florida that opened in 2019.
Airbus and OneWeb plan to develop a complete range of secure services dedicated to the specific needs of armed forces for operations on land, at sea, and in the air.
Airbus built an initial set of OneWeb satellites at a facility in Toulouse, France before the Florida factory opened.
Under an agreement between Airbus and Microsoft, Airbus will supply Azure Maps with SPOT, Pléiades, and Pléiades Neo satellite imagery and WorldDEM4Ortho elevation data.
Airbus will lead the European industrial consortium with more than 60 contractors to build the Ariel satellite.
Airbus’s radar sensors can provide resolutions from 0.25 m to 40 m across six imaging modes.
CERES draws on Airbus and Thales’ experience from the ESSAIM communications-intelligence smallsat demonstrator launched in 2004 and the ELISA electronic-intelligence smallsat demonstrator launched in 2011.
Complete Skynet 6A satellite integration will occur at Airbus facilities in the UK followed by testing at the National Satellite Test Facility in Harwell, Oxfordshire.