{"id":72610,"date":"2015-11-19T01:59:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T17:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esa-airbus-defence-and-space-reaffirm-neosat-project\/"},"modified":"2015-11-19T01:59:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T17:59:52","slug":"esa-airbus-defence-and-space-reaffirm-neosat-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esa-airbus-defence-and-space-reaffirm-neosat-project\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA, Airbus Defence and Space Reaffirm Neosat Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 11-17-2015] Through a new contract, the <b>European Space Agency <\/b>(ESA), and partner <b>Airbus Defence and Space <\/b>have agreed to further development of Eurostar Neo, a new generation of platforms for geostationary telecommunication satellites. Under phase C\/D of the Neosat program, this contract will lead to the development of the complete Eurostar Neo product line.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of Neosat is to increase the market share of European satellite builders to capture at least half of the world\u2019s satellite contracts in the 3 to 6 ton range by the end of the decade. ESA and the French space agency <b>CNES<\/b> started Neosat through the Investments for the Future Program (PIA) and continue to support it today, along with the <b>U.K. Space Agency <\/b>and participation from 16 other ESA member states. Neosat satellites are expected to reduce the cost of a satellite in orbit by 30 percent compared with today\u2019s designs.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus Defence and Space\u2019s Eurostar Neo will leverage an architecture for all-electric, all-chemical and hybrid propulsion, efficient power and thermal control solutions for all types of missions, including very high power (up to 25&nbsp;kW), as well as improved control systems to simplify operations. The company plans to draw on an extensive network of industrial partners from across Europe to develop and provide this product line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 11-17-2015] Through a new contract, the European Space Agency (ESA), and partner Airbus Defence and Space have agreed to further development of Eurostar Neo, a new generation of platforms for geostationary telecommunication satellites. Under phase C\/D of the Neosat program, this contract will lead to the development of the complete Eurostar Neo product [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72613,"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-72610","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\/72610"}],"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=72610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}