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The European Space Agency has awarded Indra €17m worth of contracts to deploy the S3T surveillance and tracking system for objects in low Earth orbit. Indra has established itself as the main contractor in this programme by virtue of an agreement with ESA, the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and ...

Rockwell Collins has been awarded a second contract for a Deployable Ku-Band Earth Terminal (DKET) SATCOM system by the New Zealand Defence Force as part of the Strategic Bearer Network Phase 1 programme. This contract follows an initial award in 2013 for a single DKET dual-antenna deployable ground station.

Elbit Systems has won a contract valued at over $90m from an Asia-Pacific country for the supply of SPECTRO XR advanced electro-optic systems. The contract will be performed over a four-year period. SPECTRO XR is an ultra-long-range, day/night, multi-spectral electro-optical ISTAR system.

Leonardo-Finmeccanica has partnered with the Algerian Ministry of National Defence to establish a joint company to produce light and medium weight helicopters at Aïn Arnat. After completion of the facility and during the early years of activity, the joint company aims to manufacture three different AgustaWestland helicopter types for various ...