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Unique radar instrument for first Copernicus satellite opens new era of environmental observation

Airbus · March 31, 2014

Pre-launch preparations for the Sentinel-1A satellite, carrying an Airbus Defence and Space built radar instrument, are in full swing at Europe´s Kourou Spaceport in French Guiana. The satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space Italy as prime...

Astrium has finalised preparation of Gaia, the star mapper of the Milky Way

Airbus · December 10, 2013

Astrium, the world's second largest space company, has finalised its preparation of Gaia in Kourou, French Guiana. Europe’s most advanced space telescope is scheduled for launch on 19 December aboard Soyuz. Designed and built by Astrium for the...

Astrium: 56th successful launch of Ariane 5

Airbus · July 24, 2013

Ariane 5 has been successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana, for the 56th time in a row, once again confirming the reliability of the European launcher developed and built by Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company. For this...

Double success for Astrium: Ariane 5 launches ATV-4

Airbus · June 5, 2013

Ariane 5 ES has lifted off on its mission to place ATV-4 ‘Albert Einstein’ en route for the International Space Station (ISS). This, the 55th consecutive successful launch of Ariane from the European Space Centre at Kourou in French Guiana, again...

ATV-4 ‘Albert Einstein’ is the heaviest ever payload for Ariane

Airbus · May 28, 2013

Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, is preparing ATV-4 for launch. On 5 June 2013, the unmanned resupply spacecraft, named after the physicist Albert Einstein, is to be launched on a European launcher Ariane 5 ES from the European...

Triple success for Astrium

Airbus · December 18, 2012

Ariane 5 has been successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana, for the 53rd time in a row and the seventh time this year, once again confirming the extraordinary reliability of the European launch vehicle under industrial prime contractorship...

Astrium completes 54th consecutive successful launch of Ariane 5

Airbus · February 6, 2013

Ariane 5 has been successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana, for the 54th time in a row, once again confirming the extraordinary reliability of the European launcher developed and built by Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company....

Astrium: 40th consecutive success for Ariane 5

Airbus · November 29, 2010

The Ariane 5 launch vehicle developed and manufactured by Astrium has been successfully launched from Kourou in French Guiana. Astrium CEO François Auque conveyed his warmest wishes to all of Astrium’s teams and industrial partners, congratulating...

Kazakhstan’s first Earth observation satellite to be launched at the end of April

Airbus · April 24, 2014

Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, is preparing for the launch of KazEOSat-1 (formerly known as DZZ-HR), which is due to lift off on 28 April 2014 into low Sun-synchronous orbit (about 700 km from Earth) on-board a...

Reunion Gold Announces Option Agreement for the Haute Mana gold project

Marketwire · December 2, 2016

LONGUEUIL, CANADA--(Marketwired - Dec 2, 2016) - Reunion Gold Corporation (TSX VENTURE:RGD) ("Reunion") is pleased to announce that it has entered into an option agreement dated December 1, 2016 with Union Minière de Saül ("UMS"), an arm's length...

Astrium to build 18 new Ariane 5 ECA launchers for Arianespace

Airbus · December 13, 2013

Astrium, the world's second largest space company, and Arianespace, the world’s leading satellite launch company, have signed a contract worth more than €2 billion for the supply of 18 additional Ariane 5 ECA launchers. These latest Ariane 5...

Sentinel-1A satellite has unfolded its antenna after successful launch

Airbus · April 4, 2014

The new large antenna (12.3m x 0.9m) of the environmental satellite Sentinel-1A´s radar instrument, developed by Airbus Defence and Space, has successfully unfolded and locked in place in the early hours of this morning (04 April 2014)....

Wake up Rosetta!

Airbus · January 17, 2014

On 20 January 2014, the global space community will turn its gaze to Darmstadt (Germany) in anticipation of signals from Rosetta, the comet probe developed and built by Space Systems (formerly Astrium) of Airbus Defence and Space for the European...

Mission accomplished for Astrium’s fourth ATV

Airbus · November 1, 2013

Following its successful docking five months ago, the most recent ATV in action – number 4, “Albert Einstein” – designed and built by Astrium, the world’s second ranking space company, has now successfully completed its mission to the...

Astrium-built ASTRA 5B satellite shipped to launch site

Airbus · November 5, 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 telecommunications...

Astrium delivers radar instrument for Sentinel-1A

Airbus · October 27, 2013

Astrium, world’s second ranking space company, has completed the radar instrument for the Sentinel-1A environmental satellite and will deliver it to Thales Alenia Space (TAS) in Rome for installation on the satellite. “We want the instruments for...

Astrium delivers ‘multi-eyed’ spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope to ESA

Airbus · September 5, 2013

Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, has completed the flight model of the Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and delivered it to its customer, the European Space Agency (ESA). The instrument will soon be shipped to the United...

Find me if you can! – A visual matching contest

Airbus · March 1, 2013

An international research competition focused on computer vision and object recognition technologies has been launched at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Bangalore, India. Initiator of the contest is EADS Innovation Works, the...