Thales Alenia Space Wins Egnos Support Contract

摘要

Thales Alenia Space of France and Italy will perform operations, support and maintenance work on Europe's GPS satellite navigation overlay system for eight years under a contract valued at more than 120 million euros ($162 million), Thales Alenia Space announced Sept. 26. The contract, with Telespazio of Rome, includes minor mission upgrades to Europe's Egnos system, which uses terminals on telecommunications satellites in geostationary orbit, and a network of ground stations, to validate the accuracy of the GPS medium-orbit constellation. Similar geostationary GPS overlays exist in the United States, Japan and Russia.