{"id":914303,"date":"2026-11-12T03:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/914303\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:02:09","slug":"france-awards-1-7-billion-contract-for-next-generation-spy-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/914303\/","title":{"rendered":"France awards $1.7 billion contract for next-generation spy satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JOHANNESBURG \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Register now to read<br \/>3 free articles this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You\u2019ll also receive our weekly Editor\u2019s Choice, SpaceNews This Week and Opinions newsletters. Opt-out at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><a href=\"#signin_modal\">Sign in to an existing account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/andrew-parsonson\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Andrew-Parsonson-headshot-150x150.png\" class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAndrew Parsonson is based in Valetta, Malta, and has been covering the space industry since 2017.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/andrew-parsonson\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Andrew Parsonson\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHANNESBURG \u2014 France has awarded Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space a contract worth more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[134645,72521,24170,1076,594,142517,79,722,193,134647],"class_list":["post-914303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-airbus-defence-and-space","tag-dga","tag-earth-observation","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-iris","tag-science","tag-sn","tag-space","tag-thales-alenia-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}