Airbus Expands Pléiades Neo Earth Observation
Constellation
(29/04/24)
Airbus has launched the Pléiades Neo Next
programme.
The programme, which expands the company's very
high resolution Earth observation constellation, will result in new satellite
assets and capabilities, including enhanced native resolution.
As
a first step of Pléiades Neo Next, Airbus is developing a new
satellite which will be launched in the next few years.
“The Pléiades Neo Next programme builds on the success of our
existing Pléiades Neo constellation which serves government and
commercial customers around the world,” said Karen Florschütz,
Executive Vice President Connected Intelligence at Airbus Defence
and Space. “This new programme will further enhance our standard
of excellence in terms of quality, performance, and reliability to
deliver images as well as geo-intelligence services and
applications.”
The Pléiades Neo Next programme is funded,
manufactured and operated by Airbus Defence and Space, with the
full image capacity available for a wide range of sectors
including defence and intelligence, agriculture, environment,
maritime, disaster response, mapping, location-based services,
civil engineering, urban planning and utilities.
Users will
continue to be able to directly task the Airbus satellites up to a
few dozen minutes prior to the satellite over the area of
interest. Images will be received through the customer’s Direct
Receiving Stations (DRS) on the ground, or on the OneAtlas digital
platform, swiftly after collection, allowing mission-critical
applications.
Working together, the Pléiades Neo and
Pléiades Neo Next satellites will offer a higher revisit anywhere
on Earth, up to several times per day, along with the best spatial
resolution and geolocation accuracy available in the market.
In
addition to enhanced native resolution, Pléiades Neo Next development will further improve the ground segment, the DRS and
the OneAtlas platform, resulting in a higher capacity of imagery
requests as well as optimising the time between request, capture
and reception.
The Airbus
fleet currently includes both optical and radar satellite constellations
ensuring complementarity services and applications, including
various resolutions, all-weather and day and night capabilities.
In parallel, Airbus is developing new capabilities based on
stratospheric platforms.
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