{"id":77381,"date":"2014-05-29T20:40:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T12:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thales-alenia-space-and-snecma-sign-new-electric-propulsion-agreement\/"},"modified":"2014-05-29T20:40:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T12:40:22","slug":"thales-alenia-space-and-snecma-sign-new-electric-propulsion-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thales-alenia-space-and-snecma-sign-new-electric-propulsion-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Thales Alenia Space and Snecma Sign New Electric Propulsion Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 05-29-2014] <b>Thales Alenia Space<\/b> signed an agreement with <b>Snecma<\/b> to use the company\u2019s PPS 500 plasma thruster as standard equipment on the new Spacebus platform, making for a satellite platform with all-electric propulsion. In addition, Snecma will factor in Thales Alenia Space\u2019s requirements in its thruster qualification program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis agreement consolidates our long-standing collaboration with Snecma. Their thrusters are already standard items on Spacebus and Alphabus platforms,\u201d said Bertrand Maureau, VP of telecommunications at Thales Alenia Space. \u201cThis latest product, now under development with the support of [the French Space Agency] <b>CNES<\/b> and the French investment board <b>CGI<\/b>, allows Thales Alenia Space to expand our portfolio to include large platforms with all-electric propulsion, already being offered in the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Snecma offers a range of plasma thrusters and related propulsion systems with power ratings from 500 W to 20 kW. The company\u2019s PPS 1350 plasma thruster is already in use on the Alphabus platform to provide orbital positioning and station keeping for satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 05-29-2014] Thales Alenia Space signed an agreement with Snecma to use the company\u2019s PPS 500 plasma thruster as standard equipment on the new Spacebus platform, making for a satellite platform with all-electric propulsion. In addition, Snecma will factor in Thales Alenia Space\u2019s requirements in its thruster qualification program. \u201cThis agreement consolidates our long-standing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77382,"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-77381","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\/77381"}],"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=77381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}