Alenia Spazio participates at Satellite 2005, the event dedicated to new satellite technologies.

23 March 2005

Alenia Spazio participates at Satellite 2005, the event dedicated to new
satellite technologies.

Alenia Spazio, a Finmeccanica company, is the main Italian space industry
and one of the most important in Europe. It is active in the fields of
telecommunication and navigation satellites, Earth observation, space
infrastructures and scientific satellites.

At its stand, the Italian company will present some of its more significant
programmes, demonstrated also with scale models: Sicral, COSMO-SkyMed and
Galileo, programmes that illustrate how satellite technology influences our
everyday life, making it safer and improving its quality.

Sicral is the first Italian system for military satellite
telecommunications, developed in complete design autonomy by Alenia Spazio
for the Sitab consortium.

The satellite's main characteristics are its capacity to adapt to even the
most difficult operational conditions and the low management costs.
Autonomy, mobility, security, flexibility and inter-operability complete the
profile, making it a perfect defence network for air, land and sea.

Sicral was recently selected by NATO, to supply the satellite capability for
telecommunications in the protected SHF and UHF bands.

Alenia Spazio is now building Sicral 1B, to extend the operative capability
of the first Sicral up to 2019 and it is currently also involved in the
construction of telecommunications equipment for international military
programmes, confirming the globally recognised high level of reliability and
quality.

In the field of remote sensing, Alenia Spazio is prime contractor for the
COSMO-SkyMed Earth observation programme, financed by the Ministry for
Education, Universities and Scientific Research and the Ministry of Defence,
and managed by the Italian Space Agency.

The programme aims to develop a constellation of four remote-sensing
satellites with radar sensors able to meet the needs of a dual civil and
military use and a potential commercial market.

The constellation uses advanced technologies developed by Alenia Spazio in
the SAR2000 programmes. These technologies produce high-resolution images,
with revisit times over the areas of interest in the order of 6-12 hours.
The extreme brevity of the reply times and the high resolution make the
COSMO-SkyMed system unique and with a wide range of institutional defence
and commercial applications.

On the strength of its thirty-year experience in advanced
telecommunications, the Finmeccanica company is part of the Galileo
Industries consortium that is developing the new European satellite
navigation programme, Galileo. The 30-satellite constellation is destined to
become a key element for the movement of vehicles, people and goods,
providing global coverage for exclusively civil applications.

Alenia Spazio will play a major role in the management and system design
engineering and procurement.
The company is responsible for all the aspects of validating and certifying
the entire system. Furthermore, at its Satellite Integration Centre in Rome,
where the 72 satellites of the Globalstar constellation were assembled,
Alenia Spazio will integrate the 30 Galileo satellites, including hardware
development.



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Jacques :-)

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