Articles by Astrium

ASTRIUM , Europe’s leading space company, has been selected by DIRECTV to design and manufacture DIRECTV 15, a new high power telecommunications satellite to provide back-up capacity and fleet expansion for television services to US customers in homes and businesses. The satellite is scheduled for launch in 2014. Based...

Astrium has announced that the second dedicated military communications satellite for the German armed forces is now operational, following the latest series of tests that covered the satellite platform, the payload, and the components of the satellite’s secure control system. With this final milestone, the conditions for in-orbit delivery...

Astrium , Europe's largest space company, has won an order to supply five state-of-the-art Maritime Advanced SATCOM Terrestrial Infrastructure System (ASTIS) wideband satellite communications terminals to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), with the contract enabling additional options to be exercised over the next nine months. The ASTIS terminal is...