Airbus has announced the suspension of its outsized air cargo service, Airbus Beluga Transport (AiBT), a little over a year after the division was granted its own Air Operator Certificate (AOC) in November 2023. AiBT had been utilising a fleet of four Airbus A300-600ST Beluga aircraft, originally...

The second Airbus-built Inmarsat-6 geostationary telecommunications satellite (I-6 F2) has arrived on board an Airbus Beluga at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ready for its launch in February. The second satellite of the Inmarsat-6 generation is based on Airbus’ ultra-reliable Eurostar E30...

A special aircraft landed at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida this weekend: the Airbus BelugaST (A300-600ST). It delivered the Airbus-built HOTBIRD 13G satellite for Eutelsat. This happened a few hours after its twin, HOTBIRD 13F, was successfully launched by a SpaceX Falcon ...