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Publié le 10/06/2016 | Aircraft | 336
Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, and the European Space Agency (ESA), have signed a contract for the early development of...
Publié le 08/03/2016 | Space | 413
Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company has officially handed over the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft to the European Space Agency (ESA) following...
Orion spacecraft’s solar array successfully put to the test Publié le 01/03/2016 | Space | 369
Airbus Defence and Space has developed and delivered the qualification model of the solar array for the European Service Module (ESM) of the Orion crewed...
Thales Alenia Space win ESA contract for PLATO phase B1 study Publié le 13/01/2015 | Space | 188
Thales Alenia Space announced today that it has been selected by the European Space Agency for one of the three phase B1 studies of the...
Airbus Group and Safran launch joint venture named Airbus Safran Launchers Publié le 03/12/2014 | Space | 592
Airbus Group and Safran have announced the creation of their new Joint Venture named Airbus Safran Launchers. With an initial workforce of around 450, starting operations...
Airbus Defence and Space primes ESA’s CHEOPS satellite to detect and characterise exoplanet Publié le 07/11/2014 | Space | 494
Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, has become the prime contractor for the CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) satellite, the first small...
Rosetta’s Philae lander touched down on the comet 67P Publié le 13/11/2014 | Space | 342
The European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt reported a successful landing, announcing: “Philae has landed!”. Some seven hours before, the Philae lander had detached from...
Airbus Defence and Space signs meteorological satellites contract with ESA for €1.3 billion Publié le 17/10/2014 | Space | 464
Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, has signed the formal contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) to design and build...
ESA confirms the primary landing site for Rosetta Publié le 15/10/2014 | Space | 757
ESA has given the green light for its Rosetta mission to deliver its lander, Philae, to the primary site on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November,...
The IXV reentry demonstrator makes a “landing” at Europe’s Spaceport Publié le 06/10/2014 | Space | 175
Europe’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) spaceplane has “touched down” in the Spaceport’s clean room facilities at French Guiana as processing begins for this reentry demonstrator’s...
 
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