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16 February 2016 – The first of the two flight models of the Sentinel-3 satellites, Sentinel-3A, primed by Thales Alenia Space, was launched on aRockot launcher, from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia.

30 January 2016 – EDRS-A, the first relay satellite of the SpaceDataHighway, was successfully launched into geostationary orbit on 30 January 2016. After a test period, it will become operational for its first end-user customer by mid-2016.

26 January 2016 – Airbus Defence and Space and OneWeb, which is building a new global satellite communications system, announced the creation of OneWeb Satellites. The new joint venture, equally owned by Airbus Defence and Space and OneWeb, w...

26 January 2016 – Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second-largest space company, has signed a contract, worth around €285m with the European Space Agency (ESA) to deliver two further optical satellites for the European Copernicus program...

15 January 2016 – EDRS-A, the first relay satellite in the SpaceDataHighway programme (also called EDRS), will be launched to geostationary orbit on 28 January 2016. The SpaceDataHighway will provide high speed laser communications in space o...

23 December 2015 – Airbus Defence and Space has been awarded the contractorship by the French defence procurement agency (DGA) for one of two military satellites for the COMSAT NG secure telecommunications programme.

15 December 2015 – Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second-largest space company, has signed a contract worth €143 million with Thales AleniaSpace to build two further space radar instruments for the Copernicus programme. Sentinel-1C and...