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Space plays a crucial role in our daily lives, in security and defence, protecting the environment, scientific and technical advances, telecommunications and a host of everyday services.
The Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) mission is…
The main task of geo-research and climate research today is to understand the…
ENVISAT, ROSETTA, GRACE and SPOT 4
Programmes
A wealth of information on Astrium's activities, programme by programme.
- Access to space
- Environment
- Everyday benefits
- Exploring the universe
- Human space flight
- New & Future projects
- Security
- Telecommunications
Solar Orbiter will study in unprecedented detail how our sun creates and…
Dual satellite communications system
MetOp is the next contribution to European weather satellite systems. A…
About Astrium
All about Europe's leading space company.
Two communications satellites launched
Developed under Astrium consortium project management- Astrium contract from Yahsat
Services
Astrium Services offers a unique ‘one-stop-shop’ in the worldwide satellite services market, with unrivalled capability and expertise in secure communications, Earth observation and navigation services.
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DeckFinder is an advanced sensor system enabling highly precise navigation of UAVs and helicopter drones. Transferring the principles of global navigation satellite systems to a local scale, DeckFinder uses six radio-based ‘ground satellites’ which emit signals to corresponding airborne receivers in the unmanned vehicle for position determination and fully automated, highly precise take-off and landing.
Equipment
A complete catalogue of satellite equipment, space propulsion systems, space industry services and test facilities.
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The new ASIC, SCOC3, integrates all the functions needed for satellite platform computer in a single component. It offers the computing power of the latest generation 32-bit SPARC processor (LEON 3) and all the communications interfaces and telemetry/remote control, reconfiguration interfaces and memory management functions requested by our customers. The extremely high level of integration considerably reduces the size, weight and cost of our new generation satellite On Board Computer and it represents significant headway towards standardising Astrium computers.
