Russia, France to Develop New Telecommunications Satellite

LE BOURGET (France). June 19 (Interfax-AVN) – Russia’s Applied Mechanics Research and Production Corporation (NPO PM, Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory) and France’s Thales Alenia Space signed two agreements at the international air show in Le Bourget.

A memorandum of mutual understanding on the joint development of a new telecommunications satellite was signed, as was a contract to supply re-transmitter elements for the multi-role satellite Luch 5A.

Alenia earlier supplied ready-made re-transmitters for NPO PM telecommunications satellites. But the Russian company has launched the production of re-transmitter elements, which led to the conclusion of a new agreement.

NPO PM makes spacecraft and satellite systems for fixed and mobile communication, TV broadcasting, navigation and geodesy, including Glonass-M and Glonass-K global navigation satellites.

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