EADS Astrium
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EADS Astrium, 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 employs around 6000 people on 9 sites in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain. (January 2004) The CEO of EADS Astrium is Antoine Bouvier.
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.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 and in a wider restructuring of EADS became the major constituent of EADS SPACE, which also includes EADS SPACE Transportation and EADS SPACE Services.
In this restructuring the former Astrium Space Infrastructure division merged with EADS Launchers & Vehicles division to form EADS 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.
Past & current programmes
Telecoms
- Amazonas
- Anik F1R & F3
- Arabsat 4A,4B & 4AR
- Astra 2B & 1M
- Eutelsat W1
- Eutelsat W2M
- Eutelsat W3A
- Hellas-Sat
- Hispasat 1A and 1B
- HYLAS
- Eutelsat Hot Bird 2-5
- Eutelsat Hot Bird 7-9
- Inmarsat 4 F1, F2 & F3
- Intelsat 10-02
- Nilesat 101 and 102
- Nimiq 4
- Orion-1
- ST-1
- Stentor
- Telecom 2
- WorldStar
Military
Earth observation
- ADM-aeolus
- Champ
- CryoSat
- Demeter
- ERS 1 & 2
- Envisat
- GOCE
- Grace
- Kompsat-2
- MSG
- Meteosat
- Metop 1, 2, 3
- MicroSAR
- Myriade
- Pleïades
- Rocsat-2
- Silex
- SPOT 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
- TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X
Science
- Cassini/Huygens
- Cluster II
- Gaia
- Herschel
- INTEGRAL
- LISA Pathfinder
- Mars Express / Beagle 2
- Rosetta
- Soho
- Ulysses
- Venus Express
- XMM-Newton
Navigation
- EGNOS
- Galileo
See also
External links
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