07 January 2016
France and Germany May Withdraw from ISS in 2020
... common operating charges – by more than 30 percent in recent years, in part by outsourcing much of the work to Airbus Defence and Space and in part by consolidating ground operations. ESA budgeted human spaceflight, which is mainly the ISS, at 371...
17 November 2020
Vega fails during launch of European Earth observation satellites
... by Spain’s Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) of the Ministry of Science and Innovation. Other partners included Airbus Defence and Space, being the prime industrial contractor of the satellite. The Spanish high-resolution...
26 March 2019
UK Space Agency offers free satellite data of Britain
... enabled application development.” After the award of two data contracts to Airbus, Defence and Space and Telespazio Vega UK Ltd in October 2018, commercial archives of images and radar data have now been downloaded to a satellite data storage system...
06 July 2020
Rocket Lab's 13th mission fails to reach orbit
...-1 had been carrying payloads from several customers including Airbus Defence and Space, Kleos Space, Lacuna Space, the Space Environment Research Centre in Canberra, Canadensys Aerospace and Aeternum. “Many of our team have been involved in previous...
June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
... major scientific payloads from the United States. NASA will also provide the launch. Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, UK, is the prime contractor for this mission that will fly closer to the Sun than any ...
March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
..., it is important to note ESA is not alone in this effort. Across the wider space sector, more and more actors are taking a proactive role in this arena. Airbus Defence and Space has recently established its own eco-design office that started...
