Astrium Satellites Toulouse

Spot image also distributes multiresolution data from other optical satellites in particular from formosat 2 taiwan and kompsat 2 south korea for which it has exclusive distribution rights and from radar satellites terrasar x ers envisat radarsat.

Astrium satellites toulouse. Airbus defence and space is a division of airbus responsible for defence and aerospace products and services. Its expertise also extends to avionics optical instruments on board software and ground systems at subsystem level. The division was formed in january 2014 during the corporate restructuring of european aeronautic defence and space eads and comprises the former airbus military astrium and cassidian divisions. Category news politics.

In 2012 astrium had a turnover of 5 8 billion and 18 000 employees in france germany the united kingdom spain and the netherlands. Airbus intelligence supports its customers with technologies and capabilities to strengthen how they plan and respond to challenges and missions with greater speed and higher certainty with 30 years experience in earth observation and defence systems we provide sustainable solutions that deliver exactly what our customer s need when they need it where they need it. Extending more than 2000 km and covering an area of some 350 000 sq km it is the planet s biggest single structure made by living organisms called coral polyps. Matra marconi space was established in 1990 as a joint venture between the space and telecommunication divisions of the lagardère group matra espace and the gec group marconi space systems the merged company was announced in december 1989 and was owned 51 by matra and 49 by gec marconi.

The 3 spot satellites in orbit spot 5 6 and 7 provide images with a large choice of resolutions from 2 5 m to 10 m. Pour astrium toulouse il attend avec impatience la confirmation d une nouvelle génération de satellites météorologiques en orbite basse. It is the world s second largest space company after boeing and one of the top ten. France haute garonne toulouse preparing satellite spot 5 astrium cie 21 01 2002 employees of airbus and eads astrium demonstrate outside of the factory gates against the planned layoffs at the european aeronautic defence and space company eads in bremen germany 28 november 2013.

Airbus clean rooms served as a starting point for several missions including. The copernicus sentinel 2a satellite image over part of the great barrier reef off australia s northeast coast. Mars express the first european mars exploration mission for which airbus defence and space designed and built the satellite. At its location in the southwest of france astrium in toulouse specialises in satellite prime contracting design assembly integration and test for communications earth observation and science satellites.