March 2017
Space is open for business
.... “The end users of LEO commercialisation will be hybrid,” suggests Bart Reijnen, head of the Bremen site for Airbus D&S. Now is the time to plan new ways of working together - and the clock is ticking. New space The...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
... two regions of the planet at the same time The mission will be completed by a consortium of industries, and is led by Airbus Deutschland, with the Italian branch of Thales Alenia Space in charge of the crucial thermal control subsystem. The...
September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
...is promoting brainstorming activities with space and nonspace actors in order to agree on potential ways forward Bartolomeo: Airbus DS proposes to operate an unpressurised platform on the ISS to host external payloads. The platform would be installed...
October 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
...-B over Satellite’ project. Early experiments showed that the idea was feasible and, on 13 June 2013, an A320 Airbus overflying Scotland was the first aircraft ‘seen’ from space. When the receiving device, on board the...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
... the EJ200 (Typhoon) engine, Chief Engineer of the EJ200, RB199 (Tornado), Adour (Hawk/Jaguar) & Trent 900 (Airbus A380) programmes, Technical Director of the Eurojet Turbo GmbH consortium based in Munich, and Chief Engineer, Civil...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
... the airport is a cluster of large aerospace companies, including Spirit Aerosystems, which manufactures wing components for Airbus and Boeing aircraft, and UTC Aerospace Systems, a major supplier to international space programmes. There is also...
