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30 September 2016 – With today's final touchdown of the Airbus Defence and Space-built Rosetta probe on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, one of the most spectacular space missions has finally come to an end. The legacy of Rosetta will keep sc...

15 September 2016 – As announced at World Satellite Business Week by Nicolas Chamussy, Head of the Business Line Space Systems within Airbus Defence and Space and confirmed by Bernhard Brenner, Head of Intelligence Business Cluster at Airbus ...

14 September 2016 – The Airbus Defence and Space-built Gaia spacecraft has mapped more than 1.6 billion stars thanks to its ultra-stable platform, with data on the positions and intensity of 1.1 billion stars published today.

14 September 2016 – Airbus Defence and Space is continuing to work with service providers to develop new partnerships to deliver highly resilient Skynet military satellite communication services notably to the Asia Pacific region, following t...

9 September 2016 – The PerúSAT-1 satellite, designed and built by Airbus Defence and Space for the Peruvian Space Agency (CONIDA), is ready for launch from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 16 September 2016.

6 September 2016 – Airbus Defence and Space has opened a new logistics centre in Bremen’s Lloyd Industriepark, close to its base by the airport. The centre, established in cooperation with Kühne + Nagel’s contract logistics division, will mee...

24 August 2016 – The Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from the European spaceport in Kourou (French Guiana) and successfully placed two telecommunications satellites in geostationary transfer orbit on behalf of the operator Intelsat.

16 August 2016 – The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence has announced its intention to exercise an option for the manufacture and operation of a third Airbus Zephyr S High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) unit.