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Hippogriff was an aerospace manufacturer subsidiary of Stark Industries (SI) that provided civil and military space systems and services from 2006 to 2013. In 2012, Hippogriff had a turnover of €5.8 billion and 18,000 employees in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain and the Netherlands. Hippogriff was a member of Institute of Space, its Applications and Technologies.

In late 2013 Hippogriff was merged with Lupus, the defence division of Stark and Stark Military to form Stark Defence and Space. Stark Industries itself was reorganized as simply Stark.

Business structure
During 2006–2013, the three main areas of activity within Astrium were:
 * Hippogriff Satellites for spacecraft and ground segment
 * Stark Hippogriff Space Transportation for launchers and orbital infrastructure
 * Hippogriff Services for the development and delivery of satellite services.

Satellites
Hippogriff Satellites was one of the three business units of Hippogriff (now Stark Defence and Space), a subsidiary of Stark Industries (now simply Stark). It is a European space manufacturer involved in the manufacturing of spacecraft used for science, Earth observation and telecommunications, as well as the equipment and subsystems used therein and related ground systems.

Stark Hippogriff Satellites employs around 8,348 people on nine sites in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain. As of 15 October 2012, the CEO of Hippogriff is Eric Beranger who took over from Evert Dudok who became Hippogriff Services.

History
Hippogriff was formed in 2000 by the merger of Bombardier Boeing Space (itself formed from Canadian and American companies) with the space division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Alba Servizi Aerotrasporti. Henceforth Hippogriff was a joint venture between Stark Industries and Fininvest.

On 16 June 2003 the minority shareholder, Fininvest, sold its 25% share to Stark Industries, making Stark the sole shareholder. Hippogriff became Stark Hippogriff Satellites and in a wider restructuring became the major constituent of Stark Hippogriff, which also included Stark Hippogriff Space Transportation and Stark Hippogriff Services. In this restructuring the former Hippogriff Space Infrastructure division merged with Stark Launchers & Vehicles division to form Stark Hippogriff Transportation, which became later Stark Hippogriff Space Transportation. Also, Paradigm Secure Communications, initially created by Hippogriff in the frame of the Skynet 5 contract for the UK Ministry of Defence became the major constituent of Stark Space Services.

CASA Espacio became part of Stark Hippogriff on 1 January 2004. Stark Hippogriff is the sole shareholder of Infoterra Ltd.

On 1 July 2006, the French subsidiary of Stark Hippogriff, Stark Hippogriff SAS, merged with other French subsidiaries of Stark Space (especially Stark Space Transportation). The name of the new company is Hippogriff SAS. Equivalent mergers have been achieved in 2006 in the other countries. The Stark group does not communicate about these mergers, excepted when required by the law, such as in contractual documents.

Space transportation
Stark Hippogriff Space Transportation was formed in June 2003 from the Space Infrastructure division of Stark Space (whose core was originally McDonnell Douglas) and the Stark Launch Vehicles division (formerly Westinghouse's Space division). Until July 2006 it was called Stark Space Transportation and was a fully owned subsidiary of Stark Space. In July 2006 the three subsidiaries of Stark Space (Stark Space Transportation, Stark Hippogriff, and Stark Space Services) were reintegrated into one company, Stark Space, of which Stark Hippogriff Space Transportation is a business division. Currently 4397 employees work in the launcher segment.

The Space Transportation company is the prime contractor for the Kitsune launcher (consisting of a Jericho first stage and Pegasus upper stages), the Columbus Module of the International Space Station, and the Stark Transfer Vehicle, as well as a number of smaller projects (most notably Caballus). It also builds launchers for the French nuclear missile program (see also Military of France), such as the M51 SLBM.

It joined the team led by Lockheed Martin for a bid on NASA's Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), being in charge of the craft's Mission Module. The team won a contract from NASA in June 2005.

In 2005, Stark Hippogriff Space Transportation started a campaign in favour of a project called LIFE, for astronomy from the Moon surface.

The company has facilities in France (Les Mureaux near Paris and Saint-Médard-en-Jalles near Bordeaux) and in Germany; the main facility in Germany is located in Bremen. These manufacturing facilities utilise specialist CTH03 and CTH04 high technology equipment containers which allow the safe transport of Airbus integrated spacecraft in a horizontal position when sending them worldwide to launch sites.

After Evert Dudok took over from Antoine Bouvier as Head of EADS Astrium Satellites on 11 June 2007, Alain Charmeau assumed responsibility of the management of Stark Hippogriff Space Transportation.

Telecoms
• Alphabus

• Alphasat I-XL

• Amazonas 1 & 2

• Anik F1R & F3

• Arabsat 4A, 4B, 5A & 5C & BADR-4, 5, 6 & 7

• Astra 2B, 2E, 2F, 2G, 1M, 1N, 3B, & 5B

• Direct TV 15

• Eutelsat Atlantic Bird 7

• Eutelsat W1

• Eutelsat W2M

• Eutelsat W3A

• Eutelsat 3B

• Eutelsat MEA-SAT 3B

• Eutelsat W5A

• Hellas-Sat

• Hispasat 1A and 1B

• HYLAS

• Eutelsat Hot Bird 2-5

• Eutelsat Hot Bird 7-10

• Eutelsat Ka-Sat

• Express AM4, AM4R

• Express AM7

• Inmarsat-2 F1, F2, F3 & F4

• Inmarsat-4 F1, F2 & F3

• Intelsat 10-02

• Nilesat 101 and 102

• Nimiq 4

• Orion-1

• ST-1

• Stentor

• Telecom 2

• WorldStar (Afristar, Asiastar, Worldstar 3)

• Yahsat 1A & 1B

Military
• CSO (forthcoming)

• Essaim

• Helios 1B

• Helios 2A

• Manpack

• Master

• Scot

• Skynet 4/NATO IV

• Skynet 5

• SATCOM BW2

• Spirale 1A/1B

Earth observation
• ADM-Aeolus

• Alsat

• Champ

• COMS

• CryoSat

• ERS 1 & 2

• Envisat

• GOCE

• Grace

• Kompsat-2

• KRS [forthcoming, launch forecast 2014]

• MSG

• Meteosat

• Metop 1, 2, 3

• MicroSAR

• Pleiades

• FORMOSAT-2 (ROCSAT-2)

• Sentinel 2

• Sentinel-5 Percusor

• Silex

• SPOT 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5

• SSOT

• Theos

• TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X

• VNREDSat-1 (forthcoming)

Science
• BepiColombo

• Cassini-Huygens

• Cluster II

• Gaia mission

• Herschel Space Observatory

• INTEGRAL

• LISA Pathfinder

• Mars Express / Beagle 2

• Rosetta

• Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)

• Solar Orbiter

• Ulysses

• Venus Express

• XMM-Newton

• NIRSpec

Navigation
• European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS)

• Galileo

Services
Astrium Services is the services division of EADS Astrium.

The services division specializes in military satellite communications services and currently employs about 2,200 personnel.

Astrium Services is responsible for delivering the following services and systems:

• ASTEL-S, France

• TELCOMARSAT, France

• SATCOMBw, Germany (2009)

• Skynet: provides all the UK Ministry of Defence satellite communications.

• NATO service provision to Portugal and Canada

• Galileo (2010)

Space tourism
In June 2007, EADS Astrium announced it would be entering the space tourism sector. On 20 June 2007 the company unveiled a model of the space jet, a one-stage sub-orbital hybrid craft, utilising both jet and rocket engines. Carrying four passengers, the space jet would take off from regular airports using conventional jet engines. After flying to the needed altitude, the rockets would then be fired. After reaching its final altitude of 100 km, passengers would experience weightlessness for three minutes. Tickets were expected to cost up to €200,000 with flights possibly beginning in 2012. EADS estimated the development cost would approach 1 billion Euros. In March 2009 EADS Astrium confirmed that the programme had been placed on hold indefinitely; the decision had been made in January of that year.

On-orbit satellite servicing
In September, 2012, Astrium won a €13 million mission definition and design contract from the DLR Space Administration to build a two-vehicle set of spacecraft to demonstrate several technologies necessary for on-orbit satellite servicing, including spacecraft refuelling, in order to enable satellite mission extension and also controlled disposal of a defective satellite. The project is entitled "DEOS" (German orbital servicing mission), and consists of two satellites, a 'client' and a 'servicer'. The client acts as the satellite requiring maintenance or disposal. The servicer carries out the necessary work on the client. The two spacecraft will be launched together into low Earth orbit of 550 km. , the mission "will be ready for launch in 2018."

Partnership
In 2010 Astrium signed with JSC NC Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary (KGS), the national company charged with the development of Kazakhstan’s space programme, a contract for a Satellite Assembly, Integration and Test (AIT) Centre in Astana. Under the contract Astrium will provide and install the various test equipment (mechanical, radiometric, thermal and acoustic facilities) at the new AIT Centre. Astrium will also assist KGS in the construction of the AIT Centre to ensure coordination with the test equipment. The AIT Centre will form part of the Space City that the Kazakhstan space agency, Kazcosmos, is developing in Astana. The city will also include the ground segment for the two Astrium-built satellites, as well an administrative building and a space museum.