This policy has led to some unusual alliances during commercial competitions. components means they are not subject to U.S. I am asking only that Europe do the same.”Īlenia Space has built several “ITAR-free” satellites, so named because the absence of certain U.S. “Governments around the world launch their satellites on vehicles developed with taxpayer money.
government, when it purchases a launch vehicle from Boeing or Lockheed Martin, enters contract negotiations with Sea Launch or the Chinese rocket as price benchmarks,” Le Gall said.
Select Arianespace do so only after what he referred to as “rug-merchant-type battles.” Le Gall said some European governments that Boeing is likely to secure at least one of the three remaining Cosmo- Skymed satellite launches. Italian military and civilian government authorities also went outside Europe for launch of the first of four Italian Cosmo- Skymed radar reconnaissance satellites, selecting a Boeing Delta 2 vehicle. ” meeting, which is scheduled for late 2008, he said. I have discussed this with ESA management and I hope the subject is brought up at the next ESA ministerial Le Gall rejected Italy’s technical arguments and said the selection of a non-European launcher was “not acceptable. One satellite at a time and can place its payload in a specific orbit. to launch the Sicral 1B military telecommunications satellite in 2008 after concluding that the satellite, which uses a relatively old and small platform, would sacrifice several years of in-service life if it were launched as one of two satellites aboard a single Ariane 5 rocket. Italy’s defense ministry has selected Long Beach, Calif.-based Sea Launch Co. Give European rockets preferential treatment is clearly not enough to prevent some governments, particularly Italy, from going elsewhere for launches when it suits them. The Thales Alenia Space practice, Le Gall said, is having the effect of rendering China’s Long March rocket family more credible on the global commercial-launch market and is thus undermining Arianespace’s position.Īddressing a press briefing here Sept. State Department does not permit launches of U.S. componentsĬan be launched on Chinese rockets. The practice of satellite builder Thales Alenia Space of building satellites that do not contain U.S. Arianespace Chief Executive Jean-Yves Le Gall said the company will ask the European Space Agency ( ESA) to strengthen measures to prevent European governments from using non-European rockets for their spacecraft.
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