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Astrium Satellites

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).

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

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.

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

03.07.2008

Noordwijk - Astrium successfully concludes In-Orbit Test

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

07.05.2008

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

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

17.03.2008

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

26.02.2008

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

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).

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