HIS MAJESTY, KING FELIPE VI inaugurated
in March the new facilities dedicated to
space activities located in the Airbus plant
in Getafe.
The President of the Government and a
sizable Spanish government delegation
accompanied the King during his tour of
this cutting-edge facilities to be used in the
design and construction of satellites and
launch vehicles.
Las nuevas edificaciones cuentan con una superficie total de 36.000 m2 destinados al diseño, producción e integración de satélites y grandes estructuras de lanzadores. Son unas instalaciones industriales 4.0 de última generación que cuentan con una línea de pulso para la fabricación y montaje de estructuras de lanzadores en serie totalmente automatizada. Su producción incluye principalmente elementos del lanzador europeo Ariane 6, aunque también se fabrican piezas para cohetes como el Vega C, Falcon 9 y el H3 japonés.
The section dedicated to satellite production
will have an area of 14,000 m2, which include
areas for manufacture and assembly, as well
as clean rooms for integration and satellite
and payload testing, cementing Airbus’ role
as a major satellite contractor and trailblazing
company in the Spanish space sector. Proof
of this is that the first Copernicus satellite
awarded to Spain will be designed and built
by Airbus at these facilities. Located south of Madrid, the center located
in Getafe has become one of the most
important owned by Airbus in Europe. Indeed,
it is the third-largest European aerospace
facility after Toulouse and Hamburg. With
the return of space-related activities to this
center, Getafe covers the entire Airbus lines
of business: commercial aircraft, helicopters,
defense and, now, space.
