Entitled “Picture the Future: How Astrium Services can help shape our world”, the video draws upon Astrium’s expertise in satellite imagery, monitoring and intelligence services to demonstrate the impact its technology can have on a raft of market segments including the defence and security, civil engineering, avionics, energy, and agriculture industries.

The video, which marks the beginning of a global marketing campaign, illustrates how Astrium Services remains, since almost 30 years, one of the main leaders in the geo-information market. The release of this film signifies several months of activity demonstrating the firm determination to continually improve the way it connects with its customers.

Bernhard Brenner, Executive Director of Astrium Services’ GEO-information Division, said, “In an industry too often characterised by one-size-fits-all solutions we’re committed to an era of greater communication with our customers, listening more than ever to them to understand their sector-specific needs and working closely together to deliver new and customised services.

“This is the age of collaboration. Many of our new and evolving service offerings have been developed by working closely with clients seeking new solutions to the daily challenges they face, and the time is right to launch a new campaign underlining our determination to play an even bigger role in helping a range of industries benefit from the advantages of space age technology.”

Benefiting from a unique access to the most sophisticated satellite constellation (SPOT, Pléiades, TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X), Astrium Services enables customers to increase security through surveillance, boost agricultural performance, maximize oil and gas or mining operations, improve the management of natural resources, support military operations and protect the environment.

To watch “Picture the Future: How Astrium Services can help shape our world”, please visit: http://www.astrium-geo.com/picturethefuture/

Additionally, Astrium Services has opened a new logistics centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Alongside existing logistics facilities in Houston, Texas, and Singapore as well as specialized regional warehouses, such as the maritime VSAT warehouse in Stavanger, the new center will play an important part in streamlining the global distribution of VSAT and MSS equipment, to ensure faster delivery times for customers anywhere in the world.

The new facility in Rotterdam supports Astrium Services logistics organisation in meeting current industry requirements whilst preparing for the continuing strong expansion of the maritime and offshore VSAT business. It will hold responsibility for delivery of all hardware components for Astrium Services' satcoms portfolio, including antennas, modems and spare parts, in addition to bundled solutions containing VSAT and MSS systems.

The new logistics centre gives Astrium Services the ability to meet increasingly time and location sensitive delivery requirements from its European partners and customers. The facility provides large warehouse space, modern offices, an expanded sales function and is well equipped for the vital test, demo and assembly function, which supports the high quality and reliability of all Astrium Services provided satcoms services and products.

A new central order office is incorporated in the new facility, with responsibility for coordination and administration within the global distribution of VSAT and MSS equipment, to cater for Astrium Services customers in Europe and worldwide.