Space

21.11.2006

Betzdorf - Astrium To Build New Astra Satellite

31.10.2006

Astrium-built BADR-4 satellite ready for launch

Paris - Launch preparation is well underway in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, for the launch of BADR-4, a Eurostar E2000+ satellite built by Astrium for the Arab Satellite Communications Organization (ARABSAT). The Proton Breeze M vehicle of International Launch Services (ILS) is scheduled for lift off on 8 November at 20:01 GMT (2:01 a.m. on 9 November Baikonur time).

23.10.2006

Darmstadt - Astrium-built METOP satellite for EUMETSAT successfully deployed in orbit

19.10.2006

Baikonur, Kazakhstan - Astrium-built MetOp satellite successfully launched

19.10.2006

EUTELSAT awards contract to deliver HOT BIRD™ 10 broadcast satellite to Astrium

Paris - Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) today announced that Astrium will build the HOT BIRD™ 10 broadcast satellite which will be launched in first quarter 2009 and positioned at the Group’s 13 degrees East location. Following HOT BIRD™ 8 and 9, it is the third high-power broadcast satellite based on Astrium’s Eurostar E3000 platform that will be located at Eutelsat’s premium video neighbourhood for cable and satellite broadcasting.

11.10.2006

First MetOp launch scheduled for 17th of October

Baikonur - First European weather satellite to operate from low Earth orbit

08.09.2006

Stevenage - Paradigm signs multi-year contract to provide MilSatCom services to the Netherlands Ministry of Defence

14.07.2006

15 Years ERS-1 – Environmental Research with EADS SPACE

Friedrichshafen - Meteorologists, climate researchers and weathermen are keeping a close eye on Baikonur as final preparations are made for the launch of the polar-orbiting weather satellite MetOp. Developed and built for the European Space Agency, ESA, under the leadership of Europe's leading space company EADS SPACE, MetOp is scheduled for launch on 17 July. As well as the date for the launch, July 17 is also an important anniversary - because on 17 July 1991, Europe achieved a successful debut in the field of radar-based Earth and environmental observation with the launch of the ERS-1 satellite.

13.07.2006

First MetOp ready for launch

Baikonur/Friedrichshafen - MetOp is scheduled for launch by Starsem on the 17th of July, using a Soyuz rocket. EADS SPACE is the satellite prime contractor and responsible for three of the eleven instruments on board of the spacecraft.

05.07.2006

German Armed Forces will receive secure communications network with two dedicated satellites

Koblenz - MilSat Services GmbH, a company set up by EADS SPACE Services and ND SatCom, will provide the German Bundeswehr's satellite communications system SatcomBW Step 2. The Federal Office for Information Management and Information Technology of the Bundeswehr (IT-AmtBw) and MilSat Services signed a contract in Koblenz, Germany on Wednesday. The contract will be valid after the German budget 2006 will have been enacted.

10.06.2006

Portsmouth - EADS SPACE Brings the World Cup Live to the Royal Navy

06.06.2006

EADS Astrium awarded third satellite contract by ARABSAT

Riad - EADS Astrium and ARABSAT, the communications satellite operator based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, have signed a contract for the construction of the BADR-6 (‘Full Moon’) satellite. Scheduled to enter service in 2008, BADR-6 will provide communications services over a wide area encompassing the entire Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, from Morocco to the Gulf, and a large part of sub-Saharan Africa. It is the fifth communications satellite contract awarded to EADS Astrium since the beginning of 2006.

24.05.2006

EADS Astrium develops its links with the Brazilian space industry

Brazilia - EADS Astrium has purchased a 42% stake in the Brazilian company Equatorial Sistemas. This partnership will strengthen the presence of EADS Astrium in Brazil by enabling it to become a privileged partner in Brazilian space programmes in particular those from the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) and its industrial part the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE).

18.05.2006

EADS Astrium Strengthens Infoterra Group

London - EADS Astrium, Europe’s leading satellite system specialist, has emphasized an ambition to expand activities in Earth observation services by significantly strengthening its Infoterra group. The formation of Infoterra France, which integrates ISTAR and some teams from EADS Astrium, as an addition to existing Infoterra companies in the United Kingdom and Germany, gathers complementary assets and competences to enhance the group’s operational capabilities.

17.05.2006

Berlin, ILA 2006 - THE LAUNCHER ARIANE 5 ECA

17.05.2006

Berlin, ILA 2006 - ATV - Europe's supply vehicle for the International Space Station

17.05.2006

TanDEM-X : DLR and EADS Astrium release new Satellite Mission

Berlin/Friedrichshafen - The German Space Agency DLR on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and Europe´s leading satellite manufacturer EADS Astrium today announced at the ILA-Airshow in Berlin its intention to build a new satellite mission called TanDEM-X. Following the official kick-off, development and manufacturing of the new German radar-satellite will now start at EADS Astrium´s Friedrichshafen plant. TanDEM-X is scheduled for launch in 2009. Together with the almost identical radar satellite TerraSAR-X which is to be launched in autumn this year, it will form a high-precision radar interferometer.

16.05.2006

Berlin, ILA 2006 - LIFE: lunar radio telescope looks back in space and time to the Dark Ages of our Universe

16.05.2006

Berlin, ILA 2006 - Venus Express can start its Mission in June

16.05.2006

EADS Astrium Strengthens Infoterra Group

Berlin, ILA 2006 - Consolidation of Geo-Information Assets and Competences including new Subsidiary in France

16.05.2006

Berlin,ILA 2006 - Columbus: Europe's central contribution to the International Space Station ISS

16.05.2006

Berlin, ILA 2006 - Preparations for first MetOp Launch in full swing

16.05.2006

Berlin, ILA 2006 - TerraSAR-X – The New Radar Eye for Earth Observation

16.05.2006

Berlin, ILA 2006 - EADS SPACE: a leader of GMES with Infoterra and EADS Astrium

16.05.2006

Berlin, ILA 2006 - NIRSpec: the super eye for the Hubble successor JWST

16.05.2006

Berlin, ILA 2006 - The European satellite navigation system Galileo

16.05.2006

Berlin, ILA 2006 - EADS Astrium, 6 contracts in 5 months

16.05.2006

Berlin, ILA 2006 - EADS Astrium awarded €317 million Gaia spacecraft contract by ESA to map one billion stars

16.05.2006

Berlin, ILA 2006 - TanDEM-X – Land Survey from Space

16.05.2006

Berlin, ILA 2006 - TerraSAR-X Services – Germany’s New Radar Satellite for Multiple Applications

16.05.2006

Berlin, ILA 2006 - Aurora programme to explore the solar system

11.05.2006

EADS Astrium awarded €317 million Gaia spacecraft contract by ESA to map one billion stars

Paris - EADS Astrium has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop and build the satellite for the Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics (Gaia) mission. Gaia will create an extraordinarily precise 3-D map of the Galaxy, mapping and recording more than one billion stars over a five year period. The satellite, worth €317 million, is due to be launched in 2011.

04.05.2006

EUTELSAT selects EADS Astrium to deliver HOT BIRD™ 9 broadcast satellite

Paris - Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) today announced the selection of EADS Astrium to build the HOT BIRD™ 9 broadcast satellite which will be launched in 2008 and positioned at the Group’s premium video neighbourhood at 13 degrees East.

02.05.2006

Columbus - Ready for its first flight

Bremen - Europe’s contribution to the International Space Station (ISS), the Columbus laboratory, will be flown on a "Beluga" transport aircraft from Bremen Airport and delivered to the Kennedy Space Centre in the USA end of the month.

11.04.2006

Venus Express in orbit around the Morning Star

Darmstadt - After a journey of nearly five months and 400 million kilometres, Venus Express was successfully inserted into orbit around Venus this morning at 11:07 BST by the joint operations team of the European Space Agency and EADS Astrium.

07.04.2006

Amsterdam, Friedrichshafen, Stevenage, Toulouse - Venus Express on target for "in-orbit-insertion"

03.04.2006

EADS SPACE Services takes a 49% stake in LONDON SATELLITE EXCHANGE

London - EADS SPACE Services has purchased a 49% stake in London Satellite Exchange. The acquisition will strengthen EADS SPACE Services’ one-stop-shop strategy of providing satellite capacity and services, including non-military capacity, to Government customers.

21.03.2006

First MetOp satellite ready to leave for Baikonour

Toulouse/Friedrichshafen/Darmstadt - Final preparation of the first Metop satellite is on-track at EADS Astrium Toulouse, in readiness for its scheduled launch by Starsem 30 June, using a Soyuz rocket from the Baïkonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. EADS Astrium is the satellite prime contractor and responsible for three of the twelve instruments on board of the spacecraft.

09.03.2006

Moon-based radiotelescope planned

Leiden - EADS SPACE Transportation and the Netherlands Foundation for Astronomy ASTRON/LOFAR signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday in Leiden, Netherlands. The companies want to test the feasibility of a long wave radio telescope on the moon. A Dutch and German preliminary study should be the first phase. The program is then likely to be expanded in a second phase to include other European participants through ESA. EADS SPACE and ASTRON are therefore contributing to a European moon program.

20.02.2006

EADS Astrium-ISRO alliance sealed. First contract with Eutelsat for W2M satellite

New Delhi - In the presence of the President of France and the Prime Minister of India, EADS Astrium and ANTRIX, the commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), have signed a contract to provide a communication satellite for the international market.

09.02.2006

Space takes centre-stage in crisis scenario exercise in Poland

Paris - The ASTRO+ project is part of the European Commission’s Preparatory Action for Security Research (PASR) initiative which brings together 22 partners drawn from public authorities, industry, universities, institutions and think-tanks from 9 European countries. ASTRO+ is designed to demonstrate how space technologies and capabilities can enhance the security of Europe’s citizens.

01.02.2006

EADS Astrium to supply Algeria’s ALSAT-2 optical observation system

Paris - EADS Astrium has signed a contract with the Algerian National Space Technology Centre (CNTS) for the development of the ALSAT-2 system, which consists of two optical observation satellites. ALSAT-2 is the first Earth observation satellite system from the AstroSat100 family to be built using the Myriade platform.

19.01.2006

Amsterdam - EADS SPACE to play central role in the Galileo satellite navigation test phase

17.01.2006

Ottawa/Toulouse - EADS Astrium awarded Nimiq 4 satellite by Telesat

20.12.2005

Stevenage - Paradigm Signs 2 year Extension to Skynet 5 Contract and Orders a Third Skynet 5 Satellite