- EADS Astrium Satellites
EADS Astrium Satellites, one of the three business units of
EADS Astrium , this company being a subsidiary ofEADS , is a European space manufacturer involved in the manufacture ofspacecraft 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 andSpain . As of 11th June 2007, the CEO of Astrium isEvert Dudok who took over fromAntoine Bouvier who became CEO of EADS subsidiaryMBDA .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 theminority 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 ofEADS Astrium , which also includesEADS Astrium Space Transportation andEADS 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 theSkynet 5 contract for the UK Ministry of Defence became the major constituent of EADS SPACE Services.CASA Espacio became part of EADS Astrium on1 January 2004 . EADS Astrium is the sole shareholder ofInfoterra 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 does not communicate about these mergers, excepted when required by the law (contractual documents).Past & current programmes
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* 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 & 1BMilitary
* Essaim
*Helios 1B
*Helios 2A
* Manpack
* Master
* Scot
* Skynet 4/NATO IV
*Skynet 5
* SATCOM BWEarth 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-Xcience
* 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
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European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS)
* Galileoee also
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Aerospace manufacturer External links
* [http://www.astrium.eads.net EADS Astrium home page]
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