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Airbus, BAE Team To Offer Satellite Data

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

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Airbus, BAE Team To Offer Satellite Data

Airbus Defense & Space Group's TerraSAR-X can deliver data at a resolution up to one meter. Image: Airbus

Britain’s BAE Systems and the defense and space division of Europe’s Airbus Group on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership under which the two companies will exclusively produce and sell geospatial intelligence products based on data collected from Airbus satellites. The companies are targeting the United States government, commercial, and select international customers for the satellite data products. Data will be provided by Airbus Defense and Space’s high resolution X-Band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X satellites and BAE will…

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