Thales has announced a contract from France\u2019s Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) to develop and deploy a new ground-based radar system designed to track satellites and debris in low Earth orbit, the company stated.<\/p>\n
The radar, named AURORE, is part of France\u2019s ARES programme (Action and Space Resilience) and will provide real-time surveillance of multiple objects in space simultaneously.<\/p>\n
Thales said AURORE will be the largest and most advanced space surveillance radar system in Europe and will enhance France\u2019s capacity to monitor and assess the space environment amid growing military competition in orbit.<\/p>\n
Developed and built at Thales\u2019 site in Limours, the radar will draw on the company\u2019s experience in air and space surveillance and benefit from contributions by several French small and medium-sized enterprises.<\/p>\n
The system is software defined and operates in the ultra high frequency (UHF) band, providing continuous monitoring, high responsiveness, and high-resolution imagery of low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n
Thales described AURORE as modular and adaptable, serving as the foundation for a new generation of UHF radars that could also support ballistic missile defence and counter hypersonic applications.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith AURORE, the only radar of its kind in Europe, Thales is contributing to French sovereignty by strengthening its capabilities for monitoring the space environment at low orbits,\u201d said Patrice Caine, the company\u2019s chairman and chief executive officer. \u201cAURORE demonstrates, once again, Thales\u2019 leadership in the field of air and space surveillance systems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thales has announced a contract from France\u2019s Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) to develop and deploy a new ground-based…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-241904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}