AIRBUS DEFENCE NEWS

Orion spacecraft’s solar array successfully put to the test

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Tue, Mar 1^st 2016 |

Airbus Defence and Space has developed and delivered the qualification model of the solar array for the European Service Module (ESM) of the Orion crewed spacecraft. D...

Airbus Defence and Space signs contract with Inmarsat to build two next generation satellites

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Wed, Jan 6^th 2016 |

Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, has been awarded a contract by Inmarsat, the lead...

Royal Australian Air Force Airbus A330 MRTT refuels F-35 fighter

DEFENCE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Thu, Oct 29^th 2015 |

An Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (A330 MRTT) of the Royal Australian Air Force has successfully refuelled a F-35A Joint Strike Fighter of the US Air Force. ...

Orion ESM – structural test model ready for shipment

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Thu, Oct 29^th 2015 |

In November Airbus DS will deliver the structural test article for the European Service Module to NASA. The structural test article is an exact copy of the flight mode...

UK accepts seventh Airbus A400M

DEFENCE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Wed, Sept 16^th 2015 |

Airbus Defence and Space today welcomed the decision of the UK Ministry of Defence to declare that the key contractual milestone known as In-Service Delivery (ISD) has been met following the handing-over of its sevent...

Airbus Defence and Space prepares the future of Earth observation from space

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Mon, Sept 14^th 2015 |

Airbus Defence and Space has just signed a feasibility study contract with CNES, the French space agency, for future French space-based civil and military Earth observ...

CN235 accident in Colombia

DEFENCE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Mon, Aug 3^rd 2015 |

Airbus Defence and Space has been informed that an Airbus CN235 aircraft with 11 people on board was involved in an accident in Las Palomas (Cesar, Colombia) yesterday, 31 July. The aircraft was operated by the Colomb...

Kurt Rossner appointed Head of A400M Programme

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Tue, Mar 31^st 2015 |

Following reorganization of the A400M Programme already announced, Kurt Rossner, currently Head of Light&Medium & Derivatives within Military Aircraft, has been appointed as Head of A400M Programme with effect as of 1...

DIRECTV 15, the most powerful US broadcast satellite, leaves Airbus Defence and Space

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Tue, Mar 31^st 2015 |

DIRECTV 15, the most powerful US broadcast satellite, has left Airbus Defence and Space’s cleanrooms in Toulouse (Fra...

Airbus Defence and Space selects Arianespace to launch PeruSat-1

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Fri, Mar 27^th 2015 |

Airbus Defence and Space has chosen Arianespace to launch PeruSat-1, the Peruvian Earth observation satellite on a European Vega launcher from Kourou spaceport. The la...

Malaysia takes delivery of its first Airbus A400M

DEFENCE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Tue, Mar 10^th 2015 |

Airbus Defence and Space has formally delivered the first of four Airbus A400M military transport ordered by the Royal Malaysian Air Force. The handover also marks the first delivery of an A400M to an export customer ...

Airbus Defence and Space joins forces with Australia’s DSTO to improve protection of aircraft and helicopters

DEFENCE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Fri, Feb 27^th 2015 |

Airbus Defence and Space has joined forces with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) of the Austral...

Airbus Defence and Space aerial targets support missile qualification

DEFENCE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Wed, Feb 25^th 2015 |

Airbus Defence and Space Direct Aerial Targets have played a key role in the qualification of the full performance of a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system being devel...

Partners to launch the MUSTANG project for global connectivity

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Mon, Feb 23^rd 2015 |

Airbus Defence and Space has started work on the MUSTANG project for machine to machine communications, in partnership with the SMEs SIGFOX and SYSMECA, and the CEA-Le...

ASTRA 2G satellite to provide next generation services ready in orbit

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Tue, Jan 13^th 2015 |

Airbus Defence and Space has successfully completed the initial in-orbit testing of ASTRA 2G and has handed over the control of the satellite to SES who will now valid...