{"id":87259,"date":"2010-03-23T20:25:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T12:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thales-alenia-space-negotiating-mtg-contract-with-esa\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T20:25:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T12:25:21","slug":"thales-alenia-space-negotiating-mtg-contract-with-esa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thales-alenia-space-negotiating-mtg-contract-with-esa\/","title":{"rendered":"Thales Alenia Space Negotiating MTG Contract with ESA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-23-10] <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> has entered into exclusive negotiations with the <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) over a contract to build <strong>Eumetsat<\/strong>\u2019s Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites, Thales Alenia Space announced March 22.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In January, Thales Alenia Space submitted a proposal in conjunction with German manufacturer <strong>OHB<\/strong> that satisfied all criteria set by ESA. The Meteosat Third Generation program comprises six satellites \u2014 four imaging satellites and two with atmospheric sounders. The imaging satellites will deliver an image every 10 minutes and operate in 16 bandwidths.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWe are very proud of being chosen to meet the challenge of building the most ambitious geostationary satellites ever developed in Europe,\u201d Thales Alenia Space CEO Reynald Seznec said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial details of the contract award were not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-23-10] Thales Alenia Space has entered into exclusive negotiations with the European Space Agency (ESA) over a contract to build Eumetsat\u2019s Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites, Thales Alenia Space announced March 22. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In January, Thales Alenia Space submitted a proposal in conjunction with German manufacturer OHB that satisfied all criteria set by ESA. The [&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-87259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87259"}],"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=87259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}