Orbital Wins Iridium Next Integration
By Michael A. Taverna
PARIS — Thales Alenia Space (TAS) has selected Orbital Sciences Corp. (OSC) to integrate and test the 81 spacecraft in the next-generation Iridium mobile satellite system.
OSC will integrate the satellite bus and communications payloads, to be provided by TAS, along with hosted payloads that the system, known as Iridium Next, is expected to carry. Iridium and TAS had decided on a U.S. integrator ...
