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4 May 2016 – Airbus Defence and Space will lead the project TeSeR (Technology for Self-Removal of Spacecraft) team to develop technology to reduce the risk of spacecraft colliding with debris in space.

3 May 2016 – Airbus Defence and Space has signed a contract with ESA to build its next Earth Explorer mission, the Biomass satellite. Biomass is due to launch in 2021 and will measure forest biomass to assess terrestrial carbon stocks and flu...

29 April 2016 – Airbus Defence and Space has announced it will build a £2.5m STEM centre built around its Exomars Rover test facility in Stevenage. The centre aims to attract more than 5,000 students a year and inspire the next generation of ...

19 April 2016 – OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture between Airbus Defence and Space and OneWeb, has chosen Florida in the United States as the site for its final assembly line, completing the last step in its industrial organisation.

18 April 2015 – Airbus Defence and Space will supply its highest-precision Fiber Optic Gyro Unit (FOG) for a mission led by the American, French, Canadian, and UK Space agencies, NASA, CNES, CSA, and UKSA, that will launch in 2020 to study Ea...