(FILES) Journalists stand in front of the SES-14 hybride 4-ton satellite equipped with a plasma jet engine, an electrically-powered propulsion system, during a visit at the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, southern France, on November 27, 2017. Airbus announced in mid-October the elimination of 2,500 jobs in its "defense and space" branch, which employs around 35,000 people.Technicians in lab coats and hairnets are busy in the Airbus "clean room" in Toulouse, where a large geostationary Thuraya 4 satellite is being assembled for an Emirati operator that will provide satellite television in Africa and the Middle East. This operation of putting large satellites into geostationary orbit at an altitude of 36,000 km, which has structured the European industry for decades, has been shaken up after the arrival of Elon Musk's SpaceX, which launches constellations of satellites into low orbit at low cost. (Photo by REMY GABALDA / AFP) (Photo by REMY GABALDA/AFP via Getty Images)