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22 November 2013 – The Swarm satellite mission – developed and built by Astrium, the world’s second largest space company – has been successfully launched from a Rockot launch vehicle, which carried the three magnetic-field research satellites int...

21 November 2013 – A recently launched greenhouse gas emissions measurement service from Astrium, the world’s second largest space company, has been included in the Climate and Energy Action Hub, an interactive platform to encourage companies to c...

20 November 2013 – Alphasat, the world’s most sophisticated commercial communications satellite, designed and built by Astrium, Astrium, the world’s second largest space company, has now reached its operational in-orbit position and has succ...

14 November 2013 – Pre-launch preparations for the Swarm satellite cluster – developed and built by Astrium, the world’s second largest space company– are in full swing at Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome, roughly 800 km northeast of Moscow. The...

14 November 2013 – The effects of Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines on November 8 2013, were photographed on 13 November 2013 by a Pléiades satellite, which had captured images (right) of the same zone (Tacloban) on 7 March 2013. Astrium b...