Astrium
Astrium
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legal form | SAS |
founding | May 2000 |
resolution | December 31 2013 |
Reason for dissolution | to Airbus Defense and Space merged |
Seat | Paris |
management | François Auque ( CEO ) |
Number of employees | around 18,000 (2013) |
sales | 5 billion euros (2011) |
Branch | Aerospace Engineering |
Astrium was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the European aerospace and defense company EADS , specializing in civil and military space systems.
history
Astrium was founded in May 2000 from the space division of DASA , its roots go back to 1961 to the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Entwicklungsring Nord ( ERNO ). It was renamed EADS Astrium in December 2006 and back to Astrium in December 2010 .
In 2009 Astrium had sales of 4.8 billion euros and employed around 15,000 people in France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain and the Netherlands. In 2011, 16,623 employees generated sales of 4.967 billion euros (EBIT margin 5.4%).
A spaceship for space tourists was also advertised under the Astrium brand .
Astrium was merged with Cassidian and Airbus Military in January 2014 and has since been operating as the new Airbus division Airbus Defense and Space , headquartered in Munich .
Business areas
Astrium was divided into three business areas :
Astrium satellites
Astrium Satellites (ASL) was mainly engaged in the development and construction of satellites . The product range comprised satellite systems for civil and military telecommunications , earth observation, space research, science and navigation as well as equipment for space travel and the associated ground infrastructure. Astrium Satellites was active in France, Germany, Great Britain and Spain and employed around 8,300 people across Europe.
Predecessor companies included Matra Marconi Space and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA) with its subsidiary Dornier Satellitensysteme GmbH.
Astrium Services
In June 2003, as part of the restructuring of EADS, the subsidiary EADS SPACE Services was founded under the leadership of Eric Béranger. 2006 was EADS SPACE Services to Astrium Services renamed (ASV). Astrium Services was legally divided into five companies, with the corresponding company suffix (GmbH, SAS, SL, Ltd.), for the countries Germany, France, Spain and Great Britain. The companies were located in Paris (France), Immenstaad on Lake Constance, Potsdam and Ottobrunn (Germany), Stevenage, Portsmouth, Oakhanger and Colerne (England). In 2009 the division employed around 2200 people.
Astrium Services offered military and civil satellite services such as navigation, earth observation and communication. Examples are SATCOMBw for the German Armed Forces or Skynet 5 for the British Army.
Astrium Space Transportation
In June 2003 restructuring of EADS Space Division, was within the EADS EADS Launch Vehicles , the EADS Astrium Space Transportation (AST) was founded under the leadership of Josef Kind and Hervé Guillou.
Astrium Space Transportation was the prime contractor for the Ariane 5 carrier system, the Columbus module of the International Space Station , ATV and a number of smaller projects, of which Phoenix is particularly noteworthy. Astrium Space Transportation was also a manufacturer of submarine-based delivery systems (see M51 SLBM ) for nuclear warheads of the French armed forces.
Around 4,400 employees worked for Space Transportation in France ( Les Mureaux near Paris, Saint-Médard-en-Jalles near Bordeaux) and in Germany ( Ottobrunn near Munich, Lampoldshausen near Heilbronn, Immenstaad near Friedrichshafen and Bremen ).
EADS Astrium Space Transportation was led by CEO Alain Charmeau.
Products
- Launchers (commercial and military, including for the French Strategic Naval Forces - FOST): Ariane (missile)
- Orbital systems: Columbus (ISS) and the Automated Transfer Vehicle
- ENS satellites (Earth Observation, Navigation and Science), Gaia (space probe) and Rosetta (probe)
- Telecommunication satellites
- Propulsion systems and space equipment
Locations
The company manufactured at the following locations:
- Germany ( Backnang , Bremen , Friedrichshafen / Immenstaad on Lake Constance , Jena , Lampoldshausen , Ottobrunn , Potsdam , Rostock , Trauen )
- France ( Vélizy , Les Mureaux , Bordeaux , Toulouse )
- French Guiana ( Kourou )
- Great Britain ( Portsmouth , Stevenage )
- Spain ( Madrid )
subsidiary company
Astrium subsidiaries included:
- Arianespace (Astrium Space Transportation 28.6%), the marketer of the Ariane 5 and Vega launch vehicles
- CILAS
- Dutch Space (Astrium Space Transportation 100%), a manufacturer of solar panels , rocket components and instruments for scientific satellites
- EADS CASA Espacio
- EADS Sodern
- Eurockot (Astrium Space Transportation 51%), the marketer of the Russian Rockot launcher
- Infoterra old name of Astrium Services, Friedrichshafen
- Jena optronics
- ND SatCom
- NGL Prime SpA (50%)
- Paradigm Secure Communications Ltd (Astrium Services 100%), a provider of military satellite communications
- RST Rostock System-Technik (100%), a technology company in the aerospace sector
- Spot image
- Starsem (Astrium Space Transportation 35%), the commercial supplier of the Russian Soyuz rocket
- Tesat-Spacecom (100%), a manufacturer of payloads for communications satellites
Web links
- Astrium website ( Memento of October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 50 years of Astrium Bremen, The Key to the Stars. (PDF; 3 MB) Astrium GmbH, 2011, archived from the original on June 21, 2015 ; Retrieved June 20, 2015 .
- ^ Astrium rockets into space tourism. Astrium, archived from the original on July 1, 2007 ; accessed on December 16, 2014 .
- ↑ EADS will in future be called Airbus. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. July 31, 2013, accessed March 28, 2014 .
- ↑ a b EADS Corporate Presentation 2003. (PDF; 3 MB) European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company EADS NV, 2003, archived from the original on June 21, 2015 ; Retrieved July 11, 2015 .
- ↑ EADS registration document 2012. (PDF; 1.5 MB) EADS, 2012, archived from the original on September 5, 2015 ; accessed on July 11, 2015 .
- ^ Astrium Services website ( Memento of April 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 15, 2013
- ^ Contract for Production of the M51 Weapon System. In: defense-aerospace.com. EADS, December 23, 2004, accessed September 9, 2012 .