Large backlog for future 30-cm satellite imagery reinforces Airbus’s multi-pronged geospatial investment

by Peter B. de Selding

PARIS — Airbus’s 600-million-euro ($670 million) investment in four 30-cm-resolution Pleiades Neo optical imaging satellites with no government guarantees shows signs of paying off as the company reports “several hundred million euros” in advance orders more than a year before service launch.

The Pleiades investment has been followed recently by Airbus’s co-investment, with the French government, in the four first satellites for what is intended as a 20-satellite constellation of 50-cm-resolution satellites. Airbus’s committed investment is more than 100 million euros . . .

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