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Airbus Defence and Space Spaceplane was a suborbital spaceplane concept for carrying space tourists, proposed by Airbus Defence and Space. A full-size mockup was officially unveiled in Paris , France, on 13 June 2007, [ 77 ] and is now on display in the Concorde hall of the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace . [ 78 ]
The project is the first space tourism entry by a major aerospace contractor. It is a rocket plane with a large wingspan, straight rearwards wing and a pair of canards. [4] Propulsion is ensured by classical turbofan jet engines for the atmospheric phase [5] and a methane-oxygen rocket engine for the space tourism phase. It can carry a pilot ...
Airbus has launched a review of its defence strategy that could open the door to more strategic partnerships as Europe's arms makers juggle security threats and pressure from some investors ...
Airbus started this program in 2010 and has invested about €15 million by May 2015 on the reusable technology programme; scale models have been flown. [2] Ariane 6 is developed for Airbus Defence and Space, Adeline comes afterwards. [1] In 2018 an official in the CNES launcher directorate declared the concept "not financially interesting". [5]
A Eurostar 3000 satellite made in 2000. The Eurostar E3000 is a generic satellite model most commonly used for commercial and military communications satellites manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space (formerly Astrium).
[5] [6] [7] In October 2018, OCCAR invited Airbus Defence and Space to submit a tender for the program, to coordinate the major sub-contractors, Dassault and Leonardo. In November 2018, the system preliminary design review was completed, allowing the stakeholders to align their requirements and contract in 2019. [8]
Eurostar was designed in the mid 1980s jointly by Matra Marconi Space and BAe (now integrated within Airbus Defence and Space) to Inmarsat specifications, [2] for a market which at the time had a design envelope of 1.8-2.5 Tons on the proposed launch vehicles (STS PAM D2 and Ariane 4). Satellite payload power was from 1300 to 2600 W.
In 2015, the German Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and French Nexter merged under a joint holding company KMW+Nexter Defense Systems. Both companies are major producers of military land systems. [2] Other major European defence contractors include: Airbus Defence and Space — (Europe) Airbus Helicopters — (Europe) BAE Systems — (UK)