Planet Aerospace
Planet Aerospace was a print magazine and an Internet website that documented all of the major products and programs of the European aerospace company EADS . It was discontinued in 2008.
General
The concept of this EADS customer magazine was to bring the complex aerospace and defense technology industry closer to a broad audience. The editorial content came from the EADS environment, but was controlled and edited by a professional editorial team at GeraMond Verlag, Munich . The concept was to implement technical topics in the form of short stories . The predecessor was the customer magazine "Revue Aérospatiale" of the French aviation group Aérospatiale .
As a special service, the magazine also offered interested readers to buy video magazines at regular intervals, for example with articles from the three major aerospace trade fairs in Berlin, Farnborough and Le Bourget.
It appeared quarterly in four language editions with a total circulation of around 80,000 copies. The contractor was GeraMond Verlag in Munich; The editorial office was based in Munich and Paris. The editor-in-chief was Alexis von Croy. The copies were delivered by press mail with Deutsche Post.
readership
According to a readership count in 2006, 32.4 percent of readers were from service and supply companies of the European aerospace group EADS , 18.5 percent from customers and buyers in the European aerospace industry, and 16.3 percent from managers of the Purchasing and sales by EADS and 12.3 percent on CEOs from various companies. Purchasing managers and military decision-makers make up 6.6 percent. Board members and managing directors of all major airlines worldwide made up 5.6 percent of the readership, government members 4.7 percent and 3.7 percent accounted for the management and managing directors of airports around the world.
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutschlandradio Kultur: First visit to the satellite, April 27, 2009, review by Florian Hildebrand