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....
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
...disruptions and delays Most space infrastructure players (such as Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Thales)...However, two of the largest space infrastructure players, Airbus and Boeing, have significant exposure in their commercial ...
February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
... to regulators, policy makers and all who recognise the necessity of achieving sustainable space development. SpaceTug, Airbus’ autonomous satellite servicing vehicle, will rely on advanced robotics, electric propulsion, vision-based navigation and...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
...perspective. For example, while the underwriter of an Airbus A380 policy would rarely be interested in the design ... defined satellite (SDS) - for example the OneSat platform from Airbus or Lockheed Martin’s SmartSat, which are marketed as being ‘fully...
