Pushing engineering to its limits
For decades, Airbus has been at the heart of space exploration, developing the technology that enables mankind to send spacecraft to planets, moons and comets.
Our clean rooms have been the starting point for several missions, including: Mars Express, Gaia and JUICE for which we designed and built the satellites for the European Space Agency (ESA).
NASA is planning to land astronauts on the Moon again with its Artemis programme. And for the first time ever, it has selected a non-US company, Airbus, to build the Orion European Service Module (ESM).
The commercial use of the International Space Station (ISS) is opening up opportunities for access to space. Whatever the mission in low Earth orbit, Airbus offers mission services on board the ISS, hosting either external payloads or experiments inside the ISS, as well as other microgravity options.
We are preparing for when the ISS comes to the end of its life with Starlab, the next generation space station.
Deep and outer space explorers
Airbus contributes to humanity’s exploration of our universe with spacecraft and telescopes.
Space stations
Airbus plays a significant role in human spaceflight-related activities for the ISS and its future replacement.
Sounding rockets
Through the TEXUS/MAXUS Sounding Rocket Programme, Airbus offers an end-to-end service to scientists and experimenters – a unique opportunity to perform technological experiments and investigations under microgravity conditions with key benefits: late access for sample installation, real-time transmission, telecommand capabilities, and short time samples delivery.
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