{"id":86992,"date":"2010-05-10T17:07:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T09:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/telespazio-thales-win-375-million-sicral-2-satellite-contract\/"},"modified":"2010-05-10T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T09:07:55","slug":"telespazio-thales-win-375-million-sicral-2-satellite-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/telespazio-thales-win-375-million-sicral-2-satellite-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Telespazio, Thales Win $375 Million Sicral 2 Satellite Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-10-10] <strong>Telespazio<\/strong> and <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> have signed a deal with the <strong>Italian Ministry of Defense<\/strong> and the <strong>French Defense Procurement Agency<\/strong> (DGA) for the development of the Sicral 2 satellite and ground segment for military communications, the two companies announced May 7. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The contract is worth about 295 million euros ($375.6 million), of which 193 million euros ($245.8 million) was awarded to Thales Alenia Space and 102 million euros ($129.9 million) to Telespazio. <br \/>\nThe companies said the contract likely will begin in early June, shortly after a framework loan agreement is signed.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Sicral 2 Program aims to support European military satellite communications and is designed to meet the needs expected to develop in the near future. The planned satellite and ground segment provides strategic and tactical communications links for both domestic operations and foreign deployments. It supports all military, terrestrial, naval and aerial platforms, operating in a single integrated network.&nbsp; <br \/>\nThe satellite will also ensure additional backup for current SHF-band capacity provided by Syracuse 3 and Sicral 1B intended for NATO communications.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Thales Alenia Space Sends EGP Prototype to ESA<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMay 3, 2010<br \/>\n[05-03-10] Thales Alenia Space  has delivered the Eurobot Ground Prototype (EGP) to the European Space  Agency (ESA) to support the International Space Station\u2019s extra  vehicular activities as well as future manned space missions\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Thales Alenia Space to Build Apstar 7B for $148.7  Million<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMay 3, 2010<br \/>\n[05-03-10] Hong Kong-based  operator APT Satellite Holdings purchased an Apstar 7B satellite and  satellite control ground center from Thales Alenia Space for 112.3  million euros ($148.7 million), APT announced.&nbsp; Apstar 7B will\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">CryoSat-2 Arrives at Baikonur<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tApril 5, 2010<br \/>\n[04-05-10] The European Space  Agency\u2019s (ESA) CryoSat-2 ice satellite has arrived at the Baikonur  Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and has been integrated with the Dnepr rocket  in preparation for its April 8 launch, the ESA announced April\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-10-10] Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space have signed a deal with the Italian Ministry of Defense and the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) for the development of the Sicral 2 satellite and ground segment for military communications, the two companies announced May 7. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The contract is worth about 295 million euros ($375.6 million), of [&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-86992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86992"}],"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=86992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}