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Encyclopedia > EADS Astrium

EADS Astrium, one of the three business units of EADS Space, this company being a subsidiary of EADS, is an 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 Company Logo This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS N.V. (EADS) is a large European aerospace corporation, formed by the merger on July 10, 2000 of Aérospatiale-Matra of France, Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) of Spain, and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA) of Germany. ... A spacecraft is designed to leave Earths atmosphere and operate beyond the surface of the Earth in outer space. ... Earth (often referred to as the Earth, or the earth) whose Latin name is Tellus (often incorrectly referred to as Terra, meaning soil) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth largest. ...


EADS Astrium employs around 6000 people on 9 sites in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain. (January 2004) The CEO of Astrium is Antoine Bouvier. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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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. This article is about the year 2000. ... Matra Marconi Space (MMS) was a Franco-British aerospace company. ... Luftwaffe Tornado ECR Deutsche Aerospace AG Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG Founded May 19, 1989 as Deutsche Aerospace AG, bundling space and aeronautic elements of Daimler-Benz (including Dornier Luftfahrt), Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB), MTU München, and Telefunken Systemtechnik (TST) In 1992, the helicopter division was... Key Facts Computadores, Redes e Ingeniería, S.A. (CRISA) is a Spanish company founded in 1985 to develop and manufacture electronics and software products for aerospace applications. ...


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. June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The definition of a minority group can vary, depending on specific context, but generally refers to either a sociological sub-group that does not form either a majority or a plurality of the total population, or a group that, while not necessarily a numerical minority, is disadvantaged or otherwise has... Systems plc is the worlds fourth largest defence contractor and a commercial aerospace products manufacturer. ... The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS N.V. (EADS) is a large European aerospace corporation, formed by the merger on July 10, 2000 of Aérospatiale-Matra of France, Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) of Spain, and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA) of Germany. ... European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) is a large European industrial corporation of the aerospace business, formed by the merger on July 10, 2000 of Aérospatiale-Matra of France, Dornier and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA) of Germany, and Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) of Spain. ... EADS SPACE Transportation (acronym: EADS-ST) was formed in June 2003 from the Space Infrastructure division of Astrium (whose core was originally ERNO) and the EADS Launch Vehicles division (formerly Aerospatiales Space division). ...


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. Paradigm Secure Communications Ltd is a special-purpose UK company consisting of Astrium and Paradign Services. ... Skynet 5 is a military satellite project led by the UK Ministry of Defence to provide a new generation of strategic communication services among the three branches of the UK Armed Forces, replacing the existing Skynet 4 system. ... The Ministry of Defence (MOD, pronounced em-oh-dee) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and the headquarters of the British Armed Forces. ...


CASA Espacio became part of EADS Astrium on 1 January 2004. EADS Astrium is the sole shareholder of Infoterra Ltd. CASA Espacio is a manufacturing company, focusing on structures and thermal control equipment for space applications. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


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

SES Astra SA, a subsidiary of SES Global, is a Luxembourg-based corporation which owns and operates the Astra series of geostationary satellites, which transmit approximately 1100 analogue and digital television and radio channels via 176 transponders to 91 million households across Europe. ... Eutelsat S.A. is a French corporation which operates 24 telecommunications satellites in geosynchronous orbit. ... Eutelsat S.A. is a French corporation which operates 24 telecommunications satellites in geosynchronous orbit. ... Hot Bird is the common name of a family of 6 satellites operated by Eutelsat, located at 13°E over the Equator (orbital position) and with a transmitting footprint over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. ... Inmarsat is an international telecommunications company founded in 1979, originally as an intergovernmental organization. ... Intelsat, Ltd. ...

Military

  • Essaim
  • Helios 1B
  • Helios 2A
  • Manpack
  • Master
  • Myriade
  • Scot
  • Skynet 4/NATO IV
  • Skynet 5

The Helios 1B is a French military photo-reconnoissance spacecraft. ... Helios 2A is a French military observation satellite which was launched on December 18, 2004 by an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. ... Skynet 5 is a military satellite project led by the UK Ministry of Defence to provide a new generation of strategic communication services among the three branches of the UK Armed Forces, replacing the existing Skynet 4 system. ...

Earth observation

  • ADM-aeolus
  • Champ
  • COMS
  • 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

CryoSat was an ESA satellite that was launched October 8, 2005. ... European Remote-Sensing satellite (ERS) was the European Space Agencys first Earth-observing satellite. ... The Envisat (Environmental Satellite) satellite is an Earth-observing satellite built by the European Space Agency. ... The goal of the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) space mission is to obtain accurate global and high-resolution determination of both the static and the time-variable components of the Earths gravity field. ... SPOT (Satellite Pour lObservation de la Terre) refers to a series of commercial earth observation satellites launched by the French Space Agency CNES (Centre National dEtudes Spatiales). ... TerraSAR-X is an Earth observation satellite, built and operated by the German Aerospace Center and EADS Astrium. ...

Science

The Cluster mission is an European Space Agency (ESA) unmanned space mission mission to study the Earths magnetosphere using four identical spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation. ... The Herschel Space Observatory is a mission of the European Space Agency. ... In calculus, the integral of a function is a generalization of area, mass, volume and total. ... LISA Pathfinder is the revised name for SMART-2, an ESA space probe to be launched in 2008. ... Concept model of the Mars Express spacecraft Mars Express is a Mars exploration mission of the European Space Agency and the first planetary mission attempted by the agency. ... Beagle 2 as it would have looked on Mars Beagle 2 was an unsuccessful British landing spacecraft that formed part of the European Space Agencys 2003 Mars Express mission. ... Conceptual drawing of the Rosetta orbiter and Philae lander Rosetta is a European Space Agency-led unmanned space mission launched in 2004 intended to study the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ... The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a spacecraft that was launched on 2 December 1995 to study the sun, and began normal operations in May 1996. ... Ulysses spacecraft Ulysses is an unmanned probe designed to study the Sun at all latitudes. ... Venus Express is the first Venus exploration mission of the European Space Agency. ... This article is about XMM-Newton. ...

Navigation

4 Galileo satellites on top of Launcher 4 Galileo Satellites on Launcher File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

The Galileo positioning system is a proposed satellite navigation system, to be built by the European Union (EU) as an alternative to the US military-controlled Global Positioning System and the Russian GLONASS. The system should be operational by 2010, two years later than originally anticipated. ...

See also

An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft. ...

External links

  • EADS Astrium home page

  Results from FactBites:
 
EADS Astrium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (274 words)
EADS Astrium, one of the three business units of EADS Space, this company being a subsidiary of EADS, is an 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.
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.
EADS Astrium is the sole shareholder of Infoterra Ltd.
EADS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1678 words)
EADS was formed by its member companies in July 2000, to become the world's second largest aerospace company (after Boeing).
In November 2003, EADS announced that it was considering working with Japanese companies, and the Japanese METI, to develop a hypersonic airliner intended to be a larger, faster, and quieter, replacement for the Concorde, which was retired in October the same year.
EADS is a major contributor to the International Space Station, and is expected to deliver Columbus in 2007 through its subsidiary EADS SPACE Transportation.
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