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Airbus won a contract from DARPA in January for the Blackjack program to examine how commercial smallsat constellations could be used for military applications.
Airbus is working with Swedish Space Corporation and Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) to strengthen their antenna networks to provide more downlink links at medium latitudes for CO3D imagery.
Airbus’s four Pleiades Neo satellites were scheduled to launch in pairs, one in July 2020 and the second in early 2022 on Vega C missions.
Airbus seeks customers and partners to jointly invest in future CO3D satellites through purchases of satellites, launch services, or access to services.
Inmarsat’s purchase of three high-capacity Ka-band satellites from Airbus was the largest satellite order industrywide since SES ordered seven O3b mPower medium-Earth orbit broadband satellites about a year and a half earlier.
The first of two sixth-generation Global Xpress satellites ordered from Airbus in late 2015 is slated to launch in 2020 on Japan’s H2A rocket.
The contract for the two replacement satellites was awarded to a consortium of Airbus and Thales Alenia Space with the bulk of the work to be done by Airbus.
Airbus received a $2,900,000 contract from DARPA last fall to produce satellite buses for DARPA’s Blackjack program.
Airbus delivers three aircraft per day, creating a supplier base experienced in high-rate production deliveries.
An Airbus-led consortium including Planet won a contract in July to provide high-resolution imagery of Europe for the European Commission and the European Space Agency’s Copernicus program.
Airbus signed a structural partnership agreement with Orbital Insight to integrate Orbital Insight analytics into Airbus’s OneAtlas platform and to provide Orbital Insight with greater access to Airbus data.
An Airbus-led consortium including Planet won a contract in July to provide high-resolution imagery of Europe for the European Commission and the European Space Agency’s Copernicus program.
The first European-built service module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft is ready to be shipped from an Airbus factory in Bremen, Germany to the United States.
Airbus OneAtlas global Basemap data has a resolution of 1.5 m per pixel globally and 0.5 m per pixel for the largest 2,600 cities.
Airbus is under contract to build 900 small telecommunications satellites for OneWeb and is producing the first 10 in France before shifting production to a new $85,000,000 factory in Florida.
The machines that will make OneWeb satellites are being tested at Airbus’ main plant in Toulouse, France before shipment to Florida.
Airbus’ joint venture with OneWeb will require at least 900 spacecraft in low Earth orbit.
The Florida plant will manufacture satellites for Airbus’ joint venture with broadband startup OneWeb.
Airbus’ four Pleiades Neo satellites, scheduled for launch in 2020 on two Vega C rockets, will feature Tesat-Spacecom optical links to connect to Europe’s SpaceDataHighway.
Airbus invested in the European Data Relay System (SpaceDataHighway), a constellation of satellites with laser links to speed the transfer of Earth observation imagery.