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EO & GEOINT · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-05-14

Airbus Defence and Space

Active EO & GEOINT Subsidiary HQ: Taufkirchen, Germany Founded 2014

European aerospace. OneSat reconfigurable sats, Copernicus EO, Starlab station partner, Ariane 6 co-developer.

47.9
ARI Composite
Moderate Risk
#40 of 40
Peer Rank
Defense cohort
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Total Launches
No flights tracked
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Estimated valuation
Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

47.9
ARI composite · Moderate Risk
Peer rank#40 of 40
Peer groupDefense
Data coverage53%
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SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorEO & GEOINT
Rank within sector#40 of 40
Tracked peers40
Secondary sectors
Broadband & DTC

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameAirbus Defence and Space
OwnershipSubsidiary
HeadquartersTaufkirchen, Germany
CountryNL
Founded2014
CEOMichael Schoellhorn
ParentAirbus SE (AIR.PA)
AliasesAirbus Defence and Space, Airbus Space, Airbus DS
Key programsStarlab (with Voyager), OneSat, Copernicus/Sentinel
Gov customersESA, European governments, NATO
IPO statusN/A — Airbus SE (AIR.PA)

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Airbus Defence & Space official sector page — confirms EO, telecom, and exploration spacecraft programs (Orion ESM, JUICE, Pleiades Neo).

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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