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Thales Alenia Space signed an agreement with the Nepal Telecommunications Authority on 2019-03-11.
Thales Alenia Space and Spaceflight announced the LeoStella joint venture in March 2018 as part of a $150,000,000 Series C investment round for Spaceflight to support development of the BlackSky constellation.
LeoSat canceled plans to launch two prototype satellites next year and chose to perform technology validation on the ground with Thales Alenia Space and investor Sky Perfect Jsat of Japan.
Thales Alenia Space booked Inmarsat’s Global Xpress-5 geostationary telecom satellite in 2017 and Global Xpress-5 is scheduled to launch in 2019 on an Ariane 5 rocket.
Thales Alenia Space is the prime contractor on an amended 2010 contract with the European Space Agency and Eumetsat for six Meteosat Third Generation geostationary satellites.
Thales Alenia Space received a 324,000,000 EUR contract from the European Space Agency on 2018-10-18 to develop new ground segment and security systems for the Galileo satellite navigation system.
LeoSat abandoned plans to launch two demonstration satellites after completing ground-based tech validation with Thales Alenia Space and Sky Perfect Jsat.
Thales Alenia Space originally planned to launch Bangabandhu-1 on an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket but switched to SpaceX at Bangladesh’s request.