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EADS Astrium is owned 100% by EADS, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, employs 7200 persons in France, Germany, United Kingdom and Spain.
This European Satellite Company is now totally focused on its satellite business activities, covering civil and military telecommunications and Earth observation,
science and navigation programmes, avionics and equipments.

EADS Astrium has accumulated an experience of more than 25 years covering all domains of satellite telecommunication systems in all Space applications:
Earth Observation, Science, Telecommunication, Navigation and Transport.
Ground infrastructures developed include: Control and Mission Centres,
Test benches and Simulators, Operations tools, Information Systems,
TT&C and data receiving stations, turnkey Satellite communications systems
and networks between distant facilities using terrestrial or satellite links,
data transmission systems via VSAT's and related hardware.

In the field of satellite telecommunication infrastructures EADS Astrium is well known as a system integrator and a major satellite prime contractor.

Through multiple projects, EADS Astrium has acquired a wide range of skills
in the area of networks, encompassing the definition of requirements,
the definition of architectures and protocols, performance simulations, up to the integration and installation.

EADS Astrium is also jointly developing with Alcatel a new generation of satellite platform product that will further increase the capacity of the satellites:
allowing the delivery of more bandwidth at a cheaper price to the end-user.
This development is thus in line with the EADS Astrium strategy
aimed at developing newservices based
on satellite infrastructures.

With the launch of the European Satellite Navigation programme of Galileo, Astrium has established itself further in the field of design and development of navigation satellite systems, including local elements.

Astrium’s specific experience in the field of navigation is stemming
especially from the following projects:

- GNSS-2 Comparative System Study (1999)
- Gala Study (2000)
- GalileoSat Study Phase B1 (2000)
- Gaflex (2001)
- Galileo Phase B2 Study (2001/2002)
- Galilei Programme (2001 – 2003)
- Galileo System Test Bed – Ground Segment, GSTB-V1 (2002 – 2004)

In these and other studies, Astrium was responsible and has built up
considerable know-how in the fields of architecture definition, integrity,
signal design, mission and system requirements definition. 

Relevant expertise could also be gained with respect to complementary systems,
local elements architecture, local based services definition, signal engineering
and frequency co-ordination, but also in non-technical fields
such as analysis of organisational models and legal assessment of funding options.

EADS Astrium closely related background is:
- Prime contractor for over 60 communications satellites, including
latest Inmarsat satellites;
- Co-prime with Alcatel of the @bus programme (new generation
of satellite platform product);
- Participation to Natacha program (FP5);
- Expertise in end-to-end satellite communication analysis
- A key player in the European satellite navigation system Galileo