New Space Domain
Awareness Services for European Governments Provided
by a NorthStar and Telespazio Partnership
September 14, 2022
NorthStar Earth & Space
(NorthStar) and Telespazio, a joint venture between
Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%), announced today at
the World Satellite Business Week
conference in Paris that they have entered into a
Distribution and Partnership Agreement (D&PA) to
strengthen cooperation on delivering solutions to
greatly enhance European Space Domain Awareness
initiatives.
Under the agreement,
Telespazio will serve as NorthStar’s exclusive
distributor and value-added solutions provider for
European Ministries of Defence, Governments,
Agencies and Institutions, reinforcing its role as a
trusted operator and space services provider for the
most demanding government customers.
“NorthStar is committed
to the peaceful and sustainable use of space. We
deliver valuable information that enhances detection
and precision tracking of space objects in LEO, MEO
& GEO to support greater safety and security ofspace
operations and encourage responsible behaviour in
orbit. Telespazio is a global space leader that has
an exceptional international reach and an unmatched
track record with European entities,” said Stewart
Bain, CEO and Co-Founder of NorthStar.
In 2023, NorthStar will
launch the first commercial space-based system fully
dedicated to Space Situational Awareness (SSA).
NorthStar’s unique “always on” constellation
simultaneously monitors all
near-Earth orbit regimes to improve awareness and
precision tracking of resident space objects.
Telespazio will integrate
NorthStar’s space-based suite of solutions into its
overall Space Domain Awareness value proposition to
government clients as a local trusted partner, based
on decades of consolidated expertise in delivering
satellite communications, Geo information,
applications, security and military space systems.
NorthStar’s superior information services, combined
with Telespazio’s secure infrastructure and added
value services, will deliver customized, high
performance end-to-end solutions
to clients.
“NorthStar’s space-based
collection and suite of derived SSA information
services will deliver a unique
“always on” 3D view of the entire space environment.
NorthStar’s unprecedented data quality and fast revisit
enable Telespazio to refine our ability to detect,
track, predict, identify and characterize space
objects and debris which is critical to address
sophisticated market requirements, for example in
Defence applications”, said Luigi Pasquali, CEO of
Telespazio.
Telespazio will leverage
NorthStar’s enhanced SSA capabilities to serve
customers across Europe via its
HQ in Italy as well as subsidiary companies in the
UK, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, and Romania.
Telespazio, as part of
the Space Alliance between Leonardo and Thales,
invested in NorthStar’s initial funding round and
supported the de-risking and study phase of
NorthStar’s space-based constellation.
This agreement confirms
the cooperation between the companies and paves the
way for accelerated future success.
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