Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales and Leonardo, is manufacturing satellites for the Italian Earth -observation constellation, IRIDE.

MILAN – Thales Alenia Space and Argotec announced contracts Oct. 16 to supply satellites for Italy’s IRIDE Earth-observation constellation. Thales Alenia Space will contribute six radar satellites and Argotec will provide 15 optical satellites, under contracts announced at the International Astronautical Congress here. The total value of the two contracts is more than 140 million […]

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