Inmarsat Signs Astrium Services as Global Xpress Distributor

by Peter B. de Selding — December 19, 2013

Industry officials said Astrium will be a favored value-added distributor of Global Xpress to its large customer set.

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Arianespace Orders 18 Ariane 5 Rockets from Astrium

by Peter B. de Selding — December 16, 2013

Astrium to build 18 heavy-lift Ariane 5 rockets for delivery starting in 2017 under a contract valued at more than 2 billion euros.

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EADS Restructuring To Eliminate Nearly 2,500 Astrium Jobs

by Peter B. de Selding — December 10, 2013

The job cuts will occur during three years and will mainly involve negotiated voluntary departures and the nonreplacement of retiring employees.

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Earnings Call Shows Why Astrium Is Being Merged into Airbus Defence & Space

by Peter B. de Selding — November 14, 2013

Total Astrium revenue for the period was 4.01 billion euros, up 2 percent from the first nine months of 2012.

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Profile | Colin Paynter, Managing director, Astrium UK

by Peter B. de Selding — October 28, 2013

Colin Paynter, managing director of Astrium UK, was involved in the Skynet 5 project from the start.

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Astrium To Build Ku-band Satellite for DirecTV Latin America

by Peter B. de Selding — October 24, 2013

Astrium is also building the DirecTV 15 satellite and the Intelsat IS-32 satellite.

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News from the 64th International Astronautical Congress | Astrium Contract Boosts Kazakhstan’s Satellite Efforts

by Peter B. de Selding — October 4, 2013

The Kazakh government is on track to leverage its contract with Astrium of Europe into an ability to build and operate optical Earth observation satellites.

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OHB Taps Astrium To Build a German Radar Satellite and Launch it on a SpaceX Falcon 9

by Peter B. de Selding — September 23, 2013

The contract also includes the launch of the satellite aboard a Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket as part of a longstanding launch reservation Astrium had with SpaceX.

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In Switch, Telesat Buys Satellite from Astrium

by Peter B. de Selding — August 1, 2013

Telesat's Telstar 12 replacement satellite will be built not by SSL, but by Astrium Satellites.

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Astrium To Build Ocean-color Imager for S Korea’s GEO-Kompsat 2B Satellite

by Peter B. de Selding — July 24, 2013

Astrium Satellites of France will provide an ocean-color imager for South Korea’s geostationary-orbiting GEO-Kompsat 2B satellite.

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Military Space Quarterly | Long-anticipated UAE Spy Sat Contract Goes to Astrium, Thales Alenia

by Peter B. de Selding — July 22, 2013

The UAE Armed Forces contracted with Astrium Satellites and Thales to provide the two-satellite Falcon Eye high-resolution optical reconnaissance system.

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OHB, Astrium To Share Work on German Radar Satellites

by Peter B. de Selding — June 21, 2013

The German parliament is scheduled to meet the week of June 24 to approve a billion-dollar second-generation radar reconnaissance satellite system, with spacecraft to be provided by both of Germany’s satellite prime contractors and launches by SpaceX.

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Astrium Services Poised To Bulk Buy Ka-band Capacity from Inmarsat

by Peter B. de Selding — June 20, 2013

The agreement will fill a gap in Astrium Services’ bandwidth services offer, which now includes Ku-band capacity leased from commercial fleet operators and Astrium’s own X-band capacity.

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EADS Astrium To Bid for Avio Space Business

by Peter B. de Selding — June 18, 2013

EADS Astrium Space Transportation will enter the bidding for Italy’s Avio as part of a play to consolidate Europe’s rocket-manufacturing sector.

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Astrium Expanding Its Propulsion Facility in Germany

by Peter B. de Selding — May 23, 2013

Astrium is investing 7 million euros to expand space propulsion production facilities in Lampoldshausen, Germany.

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