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Thales Alenia Space and ISS Reshnetsev Joint Venture to Make Satellite Equipments in Russia

Moscow, Russian satellite maker ISS Reshetnev and French Thales Alenia Space has partnered together to make satellite components in Rus...

Moscow,

Russian satellite maker ISS Reshetnev and French Thales Alenia Space has partnered together to make satellite components in Russia.
Jean Loïc Galle, President and CEO of Thales Alenia Space, and Nikolay Testoedov, General Designer and General Director of ISS – Reshetnev Company,today signed the Agreement for the creation of a Joint Venture between their two companies.
The signature took place in Moscow, in a ceremony attended by leading authorities from France and Russia, including presidents François Hollande and Vladimir Putin, VladimirPopovkin, head of the Federal space agency (Roskosmos), and Jean de Gliniasty., French ambassador to Russia.
The new company, incorporated under Russian law and with ISS holding a majority stake, will be based in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. It marks the first phase of the bilateral collaboration targeted by the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the two companies in November 2011, during the French-Russian intergovernmental conference in Moscow.
The jointly-owned company will initially focus on the production of equipment meeting the most demanding international standards for use on Russian telecommunications satellites. It will then work on the development of new products for satellites, enabling it to more completely address the requirements of both Russian and international markets in the future, where ISS, in collaboration with Thales Alenia Space, has already won several business opportunities.
Thales Alenia Space is a leader in satellite systems and a major player in orbital infrastructures, Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Finmeccanica (33%).
ISS-Reshetnev is leader in satellite manufacture for communication, navigation and geodesy purposes,