Airbus Defence and Space is the largest space company in Europe and an integral part of the £17.5 billion UK space sector. Airbus designs and manufactures advanced satellites to deliver solutions on the ground from climate change monitoring to global communications. Through the European Space Agency (ESA) they lead international missions from the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover vehicle which is set to autonomously navigate on the Red Planet to enabling scientists to get a closer look at the Sun than ever before with the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Airbus’ Earth observation satellites give the world eyes in space - Airbus in Stevenage is building ESA’s Biomass satellite that will measure forest biomass to assess terrestrial carbon stocks and fluxes from 600km above the Earth. Airbus was one of the first companies to successfully test technologies in-orbit to clear out space junk with a space harpoon.
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