{"id":61990,"date":"2019-07-24T23:34:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thales-alenia-space-telespazio-win-italian-satellite-development-contract\/"},"modified":"2019-07-24T23:34:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:34:04","slug":"thales-alenia-space-telespazio-win-italian-satellite-development-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thales-alenia-space-telespazio-win-italian-satellite-development-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Thales Alenia Space, Telespazio Win Italian Satellite Development Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The Space Alliance between <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> and <strong>Telespazio<\/strong> signed a contract with the <strong>Italian Space Agency<\/strong> (ASI) for the initial development of an innovative satellite system dubbed Ital-GovSatCom. This contract paves the way for a program within the scope of the Italian \u201cSpace Economy\u201d initiative. The value of the contract was not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The contract, signed by Thales Alenia Space as the lead company in a temporary consortium (RTI), is the first within the scope of the Space Economy initiative, providing for both private and government participation. It is defined in a collaboration agreement between the <strong>Italian Ministry of Economic Development<\/strong> (MISE) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), and a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Ministry and 12 Italian regions (Abruzzi, Basilicata, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Lombardy, Piedmont, Apulia, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria, Aosta Valley and the autonomous province of Trento), to foster the development and competitiveness of the Italian space industry and provide services for both the government and commercial markets.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite will be compatible with launches by vehicles such as the Vega light launcher, built by <strong>AVIO<\/strong>. The complete satellite system, including the ground segment and related applications, calls on critical technologies from major Italian space industry players Thales Alenia Space, Telespazio, <strong>Leonardo<\/strong>, <strong>SITAEL<\/strong>, and <strong>Space Engineering<\/strong>, along with a number of Small and Medium-Size Enterprises (SME).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Alliance between Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio signed a contract with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) for the initial development of an innovative satellite system dubbed Ital-GovSatCom. This contract paves the way for a program within the scope of the Italian \u201cSpace Economy\u201d initiative. The value of the contract was not disclosed. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}