05 May 2016
Contract signed by Airbus, Space UK and ESA to deliver Biomass satellite
ESA, Airbus Defence and Space UK have signed a €229 million contract to ...and global biomass.” Signature of contract to develop the Biomass satellite by parties from Airbus UK, Space UK and ESA. Image credit: ESA The radar will provide all-weather...
25 March 2016
Airbus Spaceplane May Be the Future of Space Tourism
...was piloted from a barge. The vehicle currently in development at Airbus will carry four passengers as high as 100 kilometers, and ... off and land at a conventional airport. According to Airbus, the vehicle will operate in between the standard airplane...
13 September 2017
New constellation to reshape Earth observation market
... time.’ By using SpaceDataHighway in its Pléiades Neo constellation, Airbus’s satellites will be able to immediately transfer data to the...are beyond their ground stations’ line-of-sight.,” reported Airbus in their recent press release. With plans for ...
09 July 2018
Plans for a future Mars rover to return soil samples to Earth
...Earth for analysis. The rover, which will be designed by Airbus’s team in Stevenage, UK, will not bring the samples direct ...martian surface and is set for launch in July/August 2020. Airbus is already in the process of building another rover bound for...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
... has successfully deployed several low-cost satellite water tank monitors. Several large private companies - including Airbus Defence & Space, BAE Systems, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman Australia and Nova Systems - have...
20 November 2018
Goonhilly joins consortium to drive Australia’s space sector
... the Australian space industry through satellite technologies and analytics. Led by the University of South Australia (UniSA), Airbus Defence and Space and Australian defence sector engineering specialist Nova Systems, in partnership with the South...
