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Inspiring the next generation with the Airbus Foundation’s new Discovery Space platform

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Discover fun, educational content that sparks an interest in science.

The Airbus Foundation’s new Discovery Space platform offers free, high-quality and ready-to-use content designed to spark an interest in STEM topics amongst children and young people.

Airbus prepares for its first megawatt-class hydrogen fuel-cell engine flight-test demonstrator…

Innovation

Hydrogen-powered fuel-cell engine architecture with cryogenic storage could feature in an all-new zero-emission aircraft which will enter service by 2035. Airbus is already well on track to design, build and demonstrate such a megawatt-class propulsion system, in under four years from now…

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What a splash!

Space

We've been working towards this for more than 10 years and now it's done. The Artemis I mission is complete, with the Airbus-built European Service Module having successfully brought NASA's Orion spacecraft safely around the Moon and back home.

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Airbus employee Pablo Álvarez Fernández joins Europe’s 2022 class of astronauts

Meet Pablo, Airbus employee joining the Europe’s 2022 class of astronauts.

People

Chosen from more than 22,500 applicants, Pablo Alvarez Fernandez was selected this month as a career astronaut candidate by the European Space Agency (ESA). He currently is the Airbus Project Management Officer in Getafe, Spain for the A350 commercial aircraft, and previously worked on the ExoMars Martian rover in the UK at Airbus Defence and Space.

Featured news

Europe’s Future Combat Air System: on the way to the first flight

Defence

16 December 2022

Europe’s Future Combat Air System: on the way to the first flight

On behalf of the governments of France, Germany and Spain, the French General Directorate for Armament (DGA) has awarded to Dassault Aviation, Airbus, Indra, Eumet and their industrial partners the contract for the Demonstrator Phase 1B of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS). This landmark contract, amounting to € 3.2 billion, will cover work on the FCAS demonstrator and its components for about three and a half years.

12 December 2022

Remote Carrier demonstrator released and operated from flying A400M for the first time

Germany’s Bundeswehr, Airbus, the German Aerospace Center DLR, and German companies SFL and Geradts have jointly carried out the world’s first successful launch and operation of a Remote Carrier flight test demonstrator from a flying A400M. Multiplying the force and extending the range of unmanned systems will be one of the future roles of Airbus’ military transport aircraft in the Future Combat Air System (FCAS).

Helicopters

30 November 2022

Airbus unveils its DisruptiveLab to test new decarbonisation focused technologies

The DisruptiveLab will evaluate a new aerodynamic architecture intended to reduce fuel consumption, as well as pursuing the implementation of hybridisation with a fully parallel hybrid propulsion system that enables the battery to be recharged in-flight. The new demonstrator will take to the skies before the end of 2022 in order to begin flight testing and maturing these new technologies.