- Russia might make ICBM submersible
- Air Power Australia and Low-Observability
- Regional implications of PKK's truce with Turkey
- Tactical Nuclear weapons - still relevant?
- Why USA Is Worried of Syrian Air Defenses?
- New Radar for Special Forces
- Future of the Global Hawk
- NATO Lock shields event
- Light infantry
- China is a cemetery of the abandoned chemical weapons
Latest Military Pictures
Defense Forum Topics
Post Tagged with: "Astrium"
Astrium to Develop French MoD Satellite Communications Network
Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, and its partner Actia Sodielec, specialists in military telecommunications, have been awarded the Comcept contract by the French defence procurement agency (DGA). The contract will run for 17 years. As of 2014, Comcept will provide the French armed forces with access to additional broadband satellite capacity over and above [...]
Astrium, Spain Plan Radar Satellite Constellation
Astrium Services and Hisdesat, the Spanish government satellite service operator, have signed a framework agreement for a joint technology development project with the aim of establishing a constellation approach for the radar satellites TerraSAR-X and PAZ. The German satellite TerraSAR-X, launched in 2007, reliably delivers high-resolution radar data for versatile applications to worldwide customers. PAZ [...]
European Space Agency Approves Upgraded Ariane 5ME Launcher
Astrium, the European space industry leader, has received confirmation from the European Space Agency (ESA) following its Preliminary Design Review (PDR) that the Ariane 5 Midlife Evolution launcher project has been approved. More than 100 European specialists in different fields have validated Astrium’s preliminary design definition, development plan and specifications for the various sub-systems of [...]
Astrium to Destroy World War I Chemical Weapons
The French Ministry of Defence has selected Astrium as prime contractor for the SECOIA program (French abbreviation for “destruction site for stockpile of old weapons”), which covers the design, construction and operation of a specialised plant for the destruction of chemical weapons from World War 1. The program is part of France’s commitments within the [...]
