French press reports ESA small satellite views

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SSTL has got a good mention in the French press this week, related to changing the economics of space.

Small satellites such as GIOVE-A, the first satellite of the ambitious Galileo project can be built to affordable budgets by SSTL to short and clearly defines timescales.

Paraphrasing (corrections welcome):

ESA has made a decision to source equipment from small suppliers as their experience with SSTL has proved this can be done more efficiently and at a lesser cost.


And for our French visitors here's an abstract:

L'Agence spatiale européenne mise sur les petits industriels pour faciliter ses projets innovants. Les gros industriels du secteur comme EADS ou Alcatel ont du souci à se faire. Plusieurs exemples récents ont convaincu l'agence que de nouveaux entrants comme le suédois SSC, l'allemand OHB, le belge Verhaert, le britannique Qinetiq ou l'espagnol Casa sont capables de fournir des satellites ou des équipements avec bien plus de réactivité et pour des coûts jusqu'à 2 fois moins chers. L'ESA a déjà appliqué cette stratégie pour les démonstrateurs du programme Galileo en choisissant la « jeune pousse » de l'université du Surrey, la Surrey Satellite Technology Limited.


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