Saab Ericsson Space Group becomes a major Galileo satellite equipment supplier.(contracts)

Wireless Satellite and Broadcasting Newsletter, April, 2006

Saab Ericsson Space in Gothenburg, Sweden, and Austrian Aerospace in Vienna, Austria, have been selected to develop and manufacture a number of key onboard equipment for the first four satellites for Europe's new satellite navigation system "Galileo."

"Many years of marketing efforts and predevelopment work now pays off. We will be a dominating supplier of on-board computers and processors, but we will also contribute with products from other areas of expertise like antennas and thermal blankets for the 30 satellites to be built.

We are proud of the confidence given to us by Galileo Industries and the European Space Agency," said Folke Brundin, senior vice-president at Saab Ericsson Space.

Galileo is Europe's new satellite navigation system...

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