Airborne and Lockheed Martin (LM) to Collaborate on Next-Generation Composites Automation The Hague, Netherlands, November 20, 2025 — Airborne has entered into a new project with Lockheed Martin on development of enhanced composites automation systems. Under a project titled ‘Enhancing the digital thread for composites manufacturing’, Lockheed Martin will share technical knowledge with Airborne to […]
Airborne and ATG partner for development of composite launcher structures On November 18, 2025, ATG Engineering announced its first commercial contract with Rocket Factory Augsburg for composite structures for the RFA ONE launcher. This contract marks a shift from R&D to industrialization of composite launcher structures, with Airborne as development partner for production process automation
Airbus Helicopters France aims to adopt Airborne’s composite automation technologies November 12, 2025, The Hague, the Netherlands – At the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, and in the presence of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, Airbus Helicopters signed on 1 October 2025 a Letter of Intent to adopt Airborne’s digital automation technologies for
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Airborne Customer Day 2025 Airborne invites its customers and partners to its 2025 Customer day! When: January 30, 2025 Where: Promolding (09:00- 11:50) & Airborne (12:00- 16:30) in The Hague, Netherlands Time: from 09:00 to 16:30 This all-day event offers a chance to see the disruptive technologies Airborne has developed, such as Automated Ply Placement (APP), Kit-by-Light
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Airborne has been awarded the contract by Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands to develop a new generation of substrate panels for Sparkwing solar arrays. Sparkwing is the world’s first commercially available off-the-shelf solar array for smallsats. The Sparkwing solar arrays are standardised building blocks to minimize the effort from satellite order to orbit. As
Europe is on a mission to secure independent access to space for small satellites. With the launch of ‘European Newspace Vertical Orbital Launcher’ (ENVOL), a European Union Horizon 2020 project, the EU sets a big step towards providing Europe its first prime commercial, competitive and green launch service. Airborne is pleased to announce to be
In June 2022, the European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch the JUICE mission to Jupiter and its icy moons. ESA selected Airbus as prime contractor for the design, development, production, and testing of spacecraft JUICE. As market leader in the manufacturing of solar array substrate panels in Europe, Airborne was selected by Airbus Defence and
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November 18th, 2019, The Hague – For the solar array of ESA’s JUICE mission to Jupiter, Airborne delivered the last 4 out of 10 XL substrate panels to Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands. As timing is critical for the interplanetary spacecraft to be put on the right trajectory enabling gravity-assist flybys after its launch in
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Airborne Aerospace has been awarded a contract by Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands to manufacture 48 substrate panels for the solar arrays of twelve new Galileo FOC satellites. The contract, carried out under a programme of the European Union, is the latest result of years of successful collaboration between the two Dutch companies to power
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