Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands

Airbus Netherlands B.V. is the Dutch company within Airbus Defence and Space, based in Leiden. It has more than two hundred professionals working on spaceflight technology. The Leiden site traces its roots to the Dutch aircraft maker NV Fokker, and its heritage includes the Dutch satellites ANS and IRAS.

Activities

• Solar arrays: powering satellites since 1979, with more than 85 missions flown, including Rosetta, the ATV, Sentinel, Galileo, Envisat, Dawn and the Cygnus ISS supply vehicle
• Structures: designs and builds launcher structures, including the Interstage 1/2 of Vega and the engine thrust frame of Ariane 5, and is involved in Ariane 6
• Instruments: Earth observation spectrometers Sciamachy, OMI, Tropomi and SPEXone, and the compact Noctua series for emission monitoring
• Defence: access to the Airbus Defence portfolio in the Netherlands, and the ECATS embedded combat aircraft training system built for the Joint Strike Fighter

Products

The product pages list HiPeR Flexlinks, laser communications, the Secondary Payload Structure (SPS) and Sparkwing solar arrays.

Company facts

• Certified to EN 9100 and ISO 14001:2015, and compliant with AQAP-2110
• The company states that two thirds of all ESA satellites fly with Dutch solar arrays
• Part of Airbus Defence and Space, which sits alongside the Airbus and Airbus Helicopters divisions

Contact

Email: NL.info@airbus.com