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A division of Airbus SE trading under AIR.PA, Airbus Defence & Space builds satellites, launch vehicles, ISS modules, and Earth observation systems.
AIR.PAACTIVEAirbus Defence & Space is a division of Airbus SE and one of the world's largest space companies, providing satellites, launch vehicles, ISS modules, and Earth observation services.
Airbus Defence & Space is a division of Airbus SE and one of the world's largest space companies, providing satellites, launch vehicles, ISS modules, and Earth observation services.
Rank 44 of 148 ranked companies. With the pillars we have not measured for this company filled at the 10th and 90th percentiles of the companies we did measure, and every other company held at its published total, the rank is likely between 29 and 59.
3 of 5 inputs measured · Medium confidence · 77% of applicable weight backed by data
Space activity evidence: Diversified aerospace group whose subsector “full-spectrum-space” names its space line: “Space Systems” revenue EUR 2,933.7M ($3,447.1M at 1.175 U.S. dollars per EUR on 2025-12-31), fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 (Airbus reports Space Systems as 22% of the division’s external revenue of EUR 13,335M; the share is rounded to a whole percent, so the line is between EUR 2,867M and EUR 3,000M), cited from Airbus FY Results 2025 presentation, slide 13, Airbus Defence and Space, External Revenue Split. Evidence register
Not measured: Reported revenue
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
A pillar score averages the company’s percentiles among the tracked companies with a value: relative standing, not a grade. Inputs measured 2026-10-08 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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No private round on record before Jul 2000. IPO, offerings, debt and unconverted notes are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
Software-defined telecommunications satellite platform offering unprecedented in-orbit reconfigurability.
Very high-resolution optical Earth observation constellation delivering 30cm native resolution.
| Airbus Defence & Space Headquarters | headquarters | Toulouse, FR |
| Airbus D&S HQ | headquarters | Toulouse, FR |
| Airbus Satellites UK | manufacturing | Stevenage, GB |
| Airbus Friedrichshafen | manufacturing | Friedrichshafen, DE |
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APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 8). Airbus Defence & Space: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 8, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/airbus-defence-space
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Airbus Defence & Space: Company dossier." Data as of October 8, 2026. Accessed October 8, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/airbus-defence-space.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_airbusdefencespace_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{Airbus Defence \& Space}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/airbus-defence-space}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/airbus-defence-space},
urldate = {2026-10-08},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-08; each fact links its primary source}
}