Everything about Eads Astrium Satellites totally explained
EADS Astrium Satellites, one of the three business units of
EADS Astrium, this company being a subsidiary of
EADS, is a European space manufacturer involved in the manufacture of
spacecraft used for science,
Earth observation and telecommunication, as well as the equipment and subsystems used therein and related ground systems.
EADS Astrium Satellites employs around 6000 people on nine sites in the
United Kingdom,
France,
Germany and
Spain. As of 11th June
2007, the CEO of Astrium is
Evert Dudok who took over from
Antoine Bouvier who became CEO of EADS subsidiary
MBDA .
Company history
Astrium was formed in
2000 from a merger between
Matra Marconi Space (France, UK) the space division of
DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG and
Computadores Redes e Ingenería SA. Hence Astrium was a joint EADS/BAE Systems venture.
On
16 June 2003 the
minority shareholder,
BAE Systems, sold its 25% share to
European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, making EADS sole shareholder. Astrium became EADS Astrium Satellites and in a wider restructuring of EADS became the major constituent of
EADS Astrium, which also includes
EADS Astrium Space Transportation and
EADS Astrium Services.
In this restructuring the former Astrium Space Infrastructure division merged with EADS Launchers & Vehicles division to form EADS SPACE Transportation, which became later EADS Astrium Space Transportation. Also,
Paradigm Secure Communications Ltd, initially created by Astrium in the frame of the
Skynet 5 contract for the
UK Ministry of Defence became the major constituent of EADS SPACE Services.
CASA Espacio became part of EADS Astrium on
1 January 2004. EADS Astrium is the sole shareholder of
Infoterra Ltd.
On
1 July 2006, the French subsidiary of EADS Astrium, EADS Astrium SAS, merged with other French subsidiaries of EADS Space (especially EADS Space Transportation). The name of the new company is Astrium SAS. Equivalent mergers have been achieved in
2006 in the other countries. Nevertheless, the EADS group doesn't communicate about these mergers, excepted when required by the law (contractual documents).
Past & current programmes
Telecoms
- Alphabus
- Alphasat I-XL
- Amazonas 1 & 2
- Anik F1R & F3
- Arabsat 4A,4B,4AR, 5A & BADR5
- Astra 2B, 1M & 3B.
- Eutelsat W1
- Eutelsat W2M
- Eutelsat W3A
- Hellas-Sat
- Hispasat 1A and 1B
- HYLAS
- Eutelsat Hot Bird 2-5
- Eutelsat Hot Bird 7-10
- Eutelsat KaSAT
- Express AM4
- Inmarsat 2 F1, F2, F3 & F4
- Inmarsat 4 F1, F2 & F3
- Intelsat 10-02
- Nilesat 101 and 102
- Nimiq 4
- Orion-1
- ST-1
- Stentor
- Telecom 2
- WorldStar
- Yahsat 1A & 1B
Military
Essaim
Helios 1B
Helios 2A
Manpack
Master
Scot
Skynet 4/NATO IV
Skynet 5
SATCOM BW
Earth observation
ADM-aeolus
Champ
COMS
CryoSat
ERS 1 & 2
Envisat
GOCE
Grace
Kompsat-2
MSG
Meteosat
Metop 1, 2, 3
MicroSAR
Pleïades
FORMOSAT-2 (ROCSAT-2)
Sentinel-2
Silex
SPOT 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X
Science
BepiColombo
Cassini/Huygens
Cluster II
Gaia mission
Herschel Space Observatory
INTEGRAL
LISA Pathfinder
Mars Express / Beagle 2
Rosetta
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
Ulysses
Venus Express
XMM-Newton
Navigation
European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS)
GalileoFurther Information
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