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7 March 2017 – Europe's Copernicus programme has got its second eye. On Tuesday 7 March at 02:49 am CET, a Vega launcher successfully took off from the spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, carrying the satellite developed and built under the i...

2 February 2017 – Airbus Defence and Space is delivery satellite communications systems for EU military training missions in Somalia, as well as for the EU capacity-building mission Sahel Niger and Sahel Mali civilian missions.

23 January 2017 – Construction of EUTELSAT 172B, the first high-power all-electric telecommunications satellite built in Europe, is now complete at the Airbus satellite assembly facilities in Toulouse.

16 January 2017 – SES-10, the 10th Eurostar satellite built by Airbus Defence and Space for Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES, has left the Airbus cleanrooms in Toulouse, France, and has been shipped to Cape Canaveral for its forthcomin...

12 January 2017 – Airbus is calling for ideas for a new challenge which is open to SMEs, start-ups, entrepreneurs and students who would like to embark on this adventure with their business ideas for utilising the "SpaceDataHighway".

23 November 2016 – Airbus Defence and Space starts the initial service of its SpaceDataHighway. This represents a step change in the speed of space communications. Ultra-broadband laser communications and the geostationary orbit of the relay ...

28 October 2016 – Airbus Defence and Space has finished construction of the first of the two GRACE-FO satellites in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The satellite will now be transferred to Ottobrunn near Munich for several months of operational tes...

11 October 2016 – Airbus Defence and Space with Orbital ATK have been selected by Eutelsat, one of the world’s leading satellite operators, to build the company’s latest video satellite, EUTELSAT 5 West B, in partnership.