Airbus has passed an important milestone for the
OneSat flexible satellite product line, with the Final Design
Review successfully achieved with customers and space agencies.
The fully reconfigurable OneSat product line
features major innovations and disruptive technologies including
the latest digital processing and active antennas enabling several
thousand beams.
Elodie Viau, Director of Telecommunications and
Integrated Applications at ESA, said, “I am proud that ESA is
associated, through the OneSat Partnership Project, with the
development of this innovative software defined satellite product
line. Such partnership projects allow Industry to engage in
ambitious and challenging endeavours to accompany the
transformation of the satcom market, to strengthen European
leadership, and ultimately to ensure our citizens are better
connected.”
Airbus is currently manufacturing seven OneSats
for its customers as well as eight state-of-the-art Eurostar Neo
telecommunications satellites.
Development of both programmes is
supported by ESA, as well as the French Space Agency (CNES), and
the UK Space Agency.
François Gaullier, Head of Airbus Telecom Systems,
said, “The worldwide commercial success of Airbus’ telecom
satellite products OneSat and Eurostar Neo, proves our investment
strategy focusing on new technology and innovation is spot on.
This was largely made possible thanks to key support from space
agencies, which further reinforces European industrial
competitiveness and jobs, preserving Europe’s sovereignty in
space. These investments gave us the impetus to innovate and offer
pioneering technological and industrial solutions to our
customers. Thanks to our intuitive reading of the market, the
right technological choices and a disruptive supply chain
approach, we see Eurostar Neo and OneSat as key pillars in the
current and future geostationary telecoms market.”
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