Russia's space agency signed three contracts, five agreements, and a memorandum at an international air show in France, the agency's head said Wednesday. The 47th International Air Show in Le Bourget near Paris on June 18-24 hosts 2,000 companies from 42 countries, including 60 Russian defense contractors, and is expected to yield a series of lucrative deals between Russian and foreign, mostly European, firms.
Anatoly Perminov, the head of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), told RIA Novosti: "The agency has signed a number of agreements and important contracts. We are satisfied with our cooperation with the European Space Agency [ESA], NASA, Italian, and Japanese partners."
Mutilple Contracts
Russia's space agency and French satellite launch firm Arianespace signed a contract for the first four launches of European satellites from the Kourou space center in French Guiana. The satellites are to be put into orbit by the Russian booster rocket Soyuz ST.
European Space Agency President Jean Jacques Dordain said that the first launch of a European satellite aboard a Soyuz ST is planned to take place before March 2009.
Reshetnev Applied Mechanics signed a contract with Thales Alenia Space to supply repeater equipment sets for Russian Luch-5A and Luch-5B communications satellites.
The Lavochkin design bureau signed a contract with German aerospace engineering company Kayser-Threde to use Russian Fregat boosters for technical and scientific experiments.
And Multiple Agreements
