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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...

13 November 2013 – Astrium, the world’s second-ranking space company, has announced that Astrium Services’s SPOT 6 high-resolution satellite has been qualified by the European Space Agency (ESA) to take part in the Copernicus Earth observation pro...

7 November 2013 – London (Global MilSatCom 2013) – Astrium, the world’s second-ranking space company, is now delivering to the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) enhanced overseas tactical, land and maritime communications capability which directly link...

6 November 2013 –  The ASTRA 5B satellite, designed and manufactured by Astrium, the world’s second-ranking space company, for satellite operator SES, has left Toulouse, France, after completion of its final integration and test campaign. The tele...

26 April 2012 – The first two Galileo In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites built by Astrium, Europe’s leading space company, are working perfectly and now begin full in-orbit operations. The satellites successfully passed a series of in-orbit test...

26 April 2012 – Astrium, Europe’s leading space company, has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as prime contractor for the Solar Orbiter mission that will perform close-up observations of the Sun. With this €300 million contract sig...