# Airbus Defence and Space

> <p><strong>Ownership:</strong> Division of Airbus SE (listed on Euronext Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid). Headquarters Ottobrunn (Germany); operations across France, Germany, UK, Spain.<br><strong>Employees:</strong> ~36,000<br><strong>Key products:</strong> Telecom satellites (Eurostar Neo); Earth-observation (Pléiades Neo); Galileo navigation satellites; military comms (Skynet UK); Ariane rocket structures<br><strong>Key markets:</strong> Government, defence, telecom operators, ESA programmes<br><strong>Known for:</strong> Europe's largest space prime. Builds most of Europe's Earth-observation, telecom, navigation and defence satellites — plus the structural elements of the Ariane launchers. Multinational by design (FR/DE/UK/ES) to keep European space sovereignty politically distributed.<br><a href="https://www.airbus.com/en/products-services/space">https://www.airbus.com/en/products-services/space</a></p>

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