Astrium

28.11.2008

Spacelab: Europe’s passport to space

Bremen - 25 years of Spacelab

05.11.2008

London - Astrium’s Skynet 5 Space Team wins specialist awards from Royal Aeronautical Society

30.10.2008

ASTRA 1M satellite ready for launch

Baikonur, Toulouse - The ASTRA 1M satellite, built by Astrium for SES ASTRA, will be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan during the night of 5-6 November. The satellite will be launched on a Proton Breeze M launch vehicle provided by International Launch Services (ILS).

28.10.2008

Amsterdam - Contract signed with EADS/ Airbus to assist the SESAR JU designing the new integrated European Air Traffic Management System

20.10.2008

Munich/Ottobrunn - Satellite-based telecommunication generates economic power

08.10.2008

Ottawa, Toulouse - Astrium delivers Nimiq 4 in orbit

08.10.2008

Astrium celebrates United Nations’ World Space Week

01.10.2008

Infoterra Ltd enhances capability with acquisition of Imass Ltd

Astrium strengthens its geo-information services

01.10.2008

Successful launch of THEOS

Yasny - Once again Astrium demonstrates its expertise in space system management

30.09.2008

Astrium and Antrix/ISRO strengthen their tie-ups

Paris - Astrium will use Antrix/ISRO launch vehicle.

29.09.2008

International success for Astrium: Europe’s Jules Verne mission accomplished

Paris - The Jules Verne ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle), which was designed and built by Astrium on behalf of the European Space Agency ESA, has successfully completed its final manoeuvre. The ATV performed two de-orbiting manoeuvres and disintegrated in the upper layers of the atmosphere over the South Pacific, exactly as planned.

29.09.2008

Astrium down-selected as candidate for Galileo FOC and invites Expressions of Interest

Ottobrunn/Portsmouth - Astrium invites Expressions of Interest for Space Segment and Ground Control Segment Elements

09.09.2008

Astrium-built Inmarsat-4 F3 satellite successfully deployed in orbit

London, Toulouse - Further to its launch by Proton on 18 August 2008, the third Astrium-built Inmarsat-4 satellite took four apogee engine firings to reach geosynchronous orbit. Following full deployment of its 45m solar array and 80m² antenna reflector the spacecraft adopted its final Earth-pointing control mode.

18.08.2008

London, Toulouse, Baikonur - Third Inmarsat-4 satellite set for launch on 19 August 2008

08.08.2008

Riyadh/Toulouse - Astrium delivers ARABSAT’s BADR-6 satellite in orbit

07.08.2008

Santiago - Astrium wins Chilean optical Earth observation system

04.08.2008

Yasny - THEOS, the THailand Earth Observation System, ready for Launch

15.07.2008

SES ASTRA Orders New Satellite From Astrium

Betzdorf (Luxemburg) - ASTRA 1N scheduled for launch in 2011

15.07.2008

Astrium purchases majority share in Spot Image

Farnborough - Infoterra Group & Spot Image to work together within the Earth Observation Division of Astrium Services

03.07.2008

Noordwijk - Astrium successfully concludes In-Orbit Test

30.06.2008

ESA commissions Astrium with operation of ISS

Bremen - The European Space Agency ESA has transferred all activities involved in the operation and exploitation of the European share of the International Space Station ISS to Astrium as prime industrial contractor.

12.06.2008

Friedrichshafen - Ulysses – longest serving spacecraft goes into retirement

12.06.2008

Kourou - Skynet 5C - triple success for Astrium

28.05.2008

Stevenage - Skynet 5C satellite ready for launch on 30 May

27.05.2008

Berlin - Astrium wins satellite contract worth €263 million

19.05.2008

Friedrichshafen / Beijing - Emergency Response in China benefits from TerraSAR-X and Spot 5

07.05.2008

Fucino - Astrium switches on the first signals from space: Giove-B is “on air”

25.04.2008

ATV re-boosts ISS to a higher orbit

Toulouse - New success for Astrium

24.04.2008

Baikonur - Green light from Baikonur: Giove-B ready for launch

17.04.2008

Friedrichshafen - Sentinel-2: A new contract worth €195 million for Astrium

07.04.2008

Stevenage and Guildford - EADS Astrium signs an agreement to acquire Surrey Satellite Technology Limited from the University of Surrey

03.04.2008

Toulouse - Rendez-Vous in Space : ATV Jules Verne reaches its destination

02.04.2008

Friedrichshafen - From space to the ocean depths

17.03.2008

Paris - Astrium teaming with Khrunichev to build large Russian communications satellite

10.03.2008

Ariane 5 ES sends the ATV on its way to the ISS: the first success of a double Astrium event

Kourou - Kourou, Sunday 9 March 2008 – At 5.03 a.m. CET, an Ariane 5 ES placed the 19.4 tonnes of the ATV Jules Verne into orbit at the very first attempt.

26.02.2008

Friedrichshafen/Stevenage - Astrium missions to study Earth-bound asteroid Apophis win international prizes

20.02.2008

Toulouse - Inauguration of Astrium Services’ new Teleport in Toulouse

20.02.2008

Friedrichshafen / Geneva - TerraSAR-X supports UN Emergency Response

20.02.2008

Astrium Services to supply PASSEREL communications services to France’s troops

Four year contract to service all major French bases overseas

19.02.2008

Munich/Hanover - Astrium Services and Allsat form JV for European Navigation and Positioning Services

18.02.2008

Infoterra Group expands into Spain

Valencia - Astrium today announced that it has entered into a joint-venture with the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia (ICC), the Catalan official mapping agency, and Hisdesat, a space services provider, to create Infoterra Servicios de Geoinformación SA (Infoterra SGSA).

14.02.2008

Astrium heading European programme for International Space Station operations

Bremen - The hatch opening of Columbus marks the beginning of its operation and Europe’s use of the International Space Station. Astrium is heading an industry consortium on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of the Exploitation Programme. The consortium is responsible for the operation and use of the ISS.

14.02.2008

Stevenage - Astrium welcomes UK Civil Space Strategy

12.02.2008

Columbus successfully docked to the International Space Station

Europe’s space laboratory Columbus is in space: it successfully docked to the ISS on Monday 11 February. The module was built by Astrium for the European Space Agency ESA.

12.02.2008

Astrium-led consortium implements a new national disaster management system for Indonesia

Toulouse - Astrium has announced that the consortium it is heading, which also includes Infoterra France and IGN France International, has successfully completed a new crisis management system at the National Disaster Management Centre in Jakarta and at three regional centres based in Jakarta, Padang and Banda Aceh.

07.02.2008

Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches Columbus into Space

Cape Canaveral - Europe’s space laboratory Columbus is in space: The US space shuttle Atlantis was successfully launched on Thursday evening (February 7th, 2007, 20.45 CET) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to carry the Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station ISS. The module – built by Astrium for the European Space Agency ESA – is scheduled to arrive at the ISS on Saturday, February 9th.

05.02.2008

Columbus: Europe's principal contribution to the International Space Station

Cap Canaveral - It enables research under zero gravity conditions

18.01.2008

Friedrichshafen - Astrium And ESA Sign Contract For Mercury Probe

08.01.2008

Paris - Astrium to build new-generation Ka-band satellite for Eutelsat