Astrium

Astrium
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

Ariane 44LP
Ariane 5 ES ATV
Ariane 5 ECA
Columbus space laboratory

Gaia spacecraft

Rosetta spacecraft

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

Commons : EADS Astrium - collection of images, videos and audio files

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 .

[1] 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 .

[2] Astrium rockets into space tourism. Astrium, archived from the original on July 1, 2007 ; accessed on December 16, 2014 .

[3] EADS will in future be called Airbus. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. July 31, 2013, accessed March 28, 2014 .

[EADS_2003-4] 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 .

[5] EADS registration document 2012. (PDF; 1.5 MB) EADS, 2012, archived from the original on September 5, 2015 ; accessed on July 11, 2015 .

[6] Astrium Services website ( Memento of April 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 15, 2013

[7] Contract for Production of the M51 Weapon System. In: defense-aerospace.com. EADS, December 23, 2004, accessed September 9, 2012 .