15 Facts About EADS Astrium

EADS Astrium itself was reorganized as the Airbus Group, with three divisions that include Airbus, Airbus Defence and Space, and Airbus Helicopters.

EADS Astrium Satellites employs around 8,348 people on nine sites in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain.

EADS Astrium was formed in 2000 by the merger of Matra Marconi Space with the space division of DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG and Computadores Redes e Ingenieria SA.

On 1 July 2006, the French subsidiary of EADS Astrium, EADS Astrium SAS, merged with other French subsidiaries of EADS Space.

Until July 2006 it was called EADS Astrium Space Transportation and was a fully owned subsidiary of EADS Astrium Space.

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In July 2006 the three subsidiaries of EADS Space were reintegrated into one company, EADS Astrium, of which EADS Astrium Space Transportation is a business division.

EADS Astrium Services is responsible for delivering the following services and systems:.

In June 2007, EADS Astrium announced it would be entering the space tourism sector.

EADS Astrium estimated the development cost would approach 1 billion Euros.

In March 2009 EADS Astrium confirmed that the programme had been placed on hold indefinitely; the decision had been made in January of that year.

In September, 2012, EADS Astrium won a €13 million mission definition and design contract from the DLR Space Administration to build a two-vehicle set of spacecraft to demonstrate several technologies necessary for on-orbit satellite servicing, including spacecraft refuelling, in order to enable satellite mission extension and controlled disposal of a defective satellite.

In 2010 EADS Astrium signed with JSC NC Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary, the national company charged with the development of Kazakhstan's space programme, a contract for a Satellite Assembly, Integration and Test Centre in Astana.

Under the contract EADS Astrium will provide and install the various test equipment at the new AIT Centre.

EADS Astrium will assist KGS in the construction of the AIT Centre to ensure coordination with the test equipment.

The city will include the ground segment for the two EADS Astrium-built satellites, as well an administrative building and a space museum.