e2v, Thales Ink Sensor Contracts

Imaging solutions provider !%e2v%! of Chelmsford, UK, and Thales Alenia Space of Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, have signed two contracts worth a total of $5.8 million. According to the agreements, e2v will supply imaging sensors for high-resolution optical imaging instruments on Thales’ Earth observation satellites. The first contract is for Göktürk, an Earth observation satellite system for the Turkish Ministry of Defense. The second is for Seosat-Ingenio, the first Spanish Earth observation satellite and the first satellite to be built by a consortium of industries from the Spanish space sector primed by Astrium.