August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... and 1.0 m multispectral GSD). In February 2017, DG entered into a merger agreement with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. Airbus Defence Space is the second champion and first commercial operator. Its uniqueness is its capacity to offer both...
10 March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... and developing the complete space and ground infrastructure. Airbus DS is also committed to its operation for the... approach for testing large antennas, developed with ARTES support by Airbus DS. EDRS will provide a fast new telecoms network It avoids...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... whose territory or facility the launch occurred, to furnish information. Both France and Azerbaijan claimed registration of the Airbus Defence and Space SPOT 7/ Azersky satellite before the duplication was removed in 2017. Deliberate omisions The...
11 January 2019
Revolutionary "Chameleon" satellite ready for final assembly
... custom machines designed for a specific use or market. Not any more. Commissioned by Eutelsat and built in Britain by Airbus and Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) in Portsmouth and Guildford, EUTELSAT QUANTUM is the first satellite capable of being...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... consolidated into the two corporations Lockheed Martin 2 and Boeing. 3 Similarly, in Europe, their competitor EADS (now Airbus Group) 4 was created. All three companies have the following characteristics: sales fi gures are around $50-60bn...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
...core team of five that includes SENER with QinetiQ Space nv, Airbus Defence and Space Spain, GMV Space and Defence and Spacebel.... Madrid. He worked for SENER from 2003 before relocating to Airbus D&S Ottobrunn to work in the Galileo IOV Space Segment....