Airbus

11 November 2015 – Ariane 5 has been flawlessly launched from Kourou, French Guiana, for the 69th consecutive time, placing in orbit ARABSAT-6B (BADR-7), a satellite developed by Airbus Defence and Space with Thales Alenia Space for Arabsat, ...

3 November 2015 – Airbus Defence and Space has launched its new XEBRA (Zee-brah) X-band milsatcom service using the world’s most compact X-band terminals and the Skynet satellite network. The XEBRA service provides superior global communicati...

2 November 2015 – Millions of households and businesses throughout the Middle East and Africa will soon be enjoying enhanced TV broadcast and broadband telecommunications after ARABSAT-6B (BADR-7), a satellite developed by Airbus Defence and ...

16 October 2015 – Airbus Defence and Space has successfully completed the final integration and testing of the new Telstar 12 VANTAGE satellite for Telesat, a leading global satellite operator headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

13 October 2015 – Airbus Defence and Space has finished building the structural model for ESA’s CHEOPS (CHaracterisingExOPlanet Satellite), Europe’s first mission to search for exoplanetary transits by performing ultra-high precision photomet...

12 October 2015 – LISA Pathfinder, the European Space Agency’s gravitational-wave detection technology demonstrator, has left Stevenage ready for launch. It was shipped from the UK to Kourou in French Guiana on board an Antonov aircraft and a...

30 September 2015 – The 226th launch of the Ariane rocket, successfully placing two satellites in their geostationary transfer orbits, took place today from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.