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The European Space Agency has dismissed Airbus Defence and Space as prime contractor for operations of Europe’s share of the International Space Station, opting to perform much of the Airbus work itself, reports SpaceNews.
The decision, which reverses more than a decade-long trend of commercializing space station functions, was made following ESA assurances that it could do much of what Airbus has done without adding personnel or incurring other costs, officials said.

Under the new space station operations scheme, ESA split the former Airbus contract into three pieces:

  • One for Airbus, which will continue with a much-reduced work package.
  • One for Altec of Turin, Italy, a joint venture between the Italian Space Agency and Thales Alenia Space Italy.
  • One with the German Aerospace Center, DLR, which has a station operations center in Oberpfaffenhofen.
...the [previous] Airbus contract included astronaut training, spare parts procurement for Europe's Columbus space station laboratory, payload experiment design assistance, ground station maintenance and space station communications.

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