JOHANNESBURG — France has awarded Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space a contract worth more than 1.5 billion euros ($1.7 billion) to develop two next-generation military Earth observation satellites.

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Andrew Parsonson is based in Valetta, Malta, and has been covering the space industry since 2017.
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