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Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage
Airbus
Airbus Defence and Space
Airbus Defence and Space has been an
integral part the history of Stevenage
since the town was founded.
Now employing more than 1,500 people
in the space business, the teams in the
UK have worked on more than 100
geostationary telecommunications
satellites over a period of 40 years and
have built up world leading expertise
in satellite payloads (the brains of
the satellites), structure, thermal
and propulsion systems, as well as
radio frequency receive and transmit
technologies.
It has lead to the amazing fact that 25% of
all the world’s geo telecoms satellites start
life in Stevenage with their structures and
propulsion systems
Geo telecoms satellites do everything
from direct to home tv broadcasting to
transmitting news coverage across the
world as well as connecting aircraft and
ships on the move – and providing wifi
connectivity to aircraft. Airbus also
owns and operates the UK’s Skynet 5
secure military communications fleet
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