{"id":85945,"date":"2010-10-27T20:34:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T12:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/finmeccanica-spaceopal-win-galileo-infrastructure-contract\/"},"modified":"2010-10-27T20:34:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T12:34:41","slug":"finmeccanica-spaceopal-win-galileo-infrastructure-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/finmeccanica-spaceopal-win-galileo-infrastructure-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Finmeccanica, SpaceOpal Win Galileo Infrastructure Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[10-27-10] A joint venture between the <strong>German Aerospace Center\u2019<\/strong>s <strong>SpaceOpal<\/strong> and <strong>Finmeccanica<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Telespazio SpA<\/strong> won a 194 million euro ($271 million) contract to provide space and ground infrastructure for the <strong>European Union<\/strong>\u2019s (EU) Galileo land- and air-traffic control network observation platform, the companies announced Oct. 26.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The contract \u2014 the fourth of six contracts for the procurement of Galileo\u2019s operational capability, which is scheduled to begin in 2014 \u2014 covers industrial services needed to support the <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> in operating the satellites and ground system. In January, the <strong>European Commission<\/strong> (EC) awarded three Galileo contracts worth a total of about 1 billion euros ($1.38 billion) for engineering support, launch vehicles and satellites. The remaining contracts will cover the completion of the ground infrastructure and be awarded in early 2011. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The EC and EU recently have come under fire by European budget agencies and from the German government, which submitted a proposal Oct. 24 to the EC requesting that the commission cut Galileo\u2019s costs after an EC report showed the program over budget and behind schedule. \u201cWe are fully committed to the roll-out of the system. Europe will have its own independent satellite navigation system capable of high precision and reliability,\u201d EU Industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[10-27-10] A joint venture between the German Aerospace Center\u2019s SpaceOpal and Finmeccanica\u2019s Telespazio SpA won a 194 million euro ($271 million) contract to provide space and ground infrastructure for the European Union\u2019s (EU) Galileo land- and air-traffic control network observation platform, the companies announced Oct. 26. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The contract \u2014 the fourth of six contracts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-85945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85945"}],"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=85945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}