{"id":542107,"date":"2018-11-01T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d2a00add3f541f3116cd08ad3e6f4eb7"},"modified":"2018-11-01T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:12:00","slug":"spacebus-neo-electric-propulsion-module-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=542107","title":{"rendered":"Spacebus Neo electric propulsion module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2018\/11\/spacebus_neo_electric_propulsion_module2\/17851719-1-eng-GB\/Spacebus_Neo_electric_propulsion_module_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSpacebus Neo is a new telecom satellite product line by Thales Alenia Space, developed under ESA\u2019s Neosat programme. Its&nbsp;first new electric propulsion module is seen in Thales UK\u2019s Belfast assembly centre before being shipped to Cannes for final spacecraft assembly.&nbsp;This first satellite will be Eutelsat\u2019s KONNECT, which will provide broadband to Europe and Africa.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe new Spacebus Neo product line is developed in the frame of ESA&#8217;s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (<u>ARTES<\/u>) programme, in cooperation with space agencies from ESA Member States, particularly CNES and the UK Space Agency.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Neosat programme comprises both Spacebus Neo by Thales Alenia Space and Eurostar Neo by Airbus Defence and Space. It includes development and in-orbit validation of the new satellite product lines for both companies, allowing the two European satellite prime integrators to deliver competitive satellites for the commercial satellite market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2018\/11\/spacebus_neo_electric_propulsion_module2\/17851719-1-eng-GB\/Spacebus_Neo_electric_propulsion_module_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSpacebus Neo is a new telecom satellite product line by Thales Alenia Space, developed under ESA&rsquo;s Neosat programme. Its&nbsp;first new electric propulsion module is seen in Thales UK&rsquo;s Belfast assembly centre before being shipped to Cannes for final spacecraft assembly.&nbsp;This first satellite will be Eutelsat&rsquo;s KONNECT, which will provide broadband to Europe and Africa.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe new Spacebus Neo product line is developed in the frame of ESA&#8217;s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (<u>ARTES<\/u>) programme, in cooperation with space agencies from ESA Member States, particularly CNES and the UK Space Agency.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Neosat programme comprises both Spacebus Neo by Thales Alenia Space and Eurostar Neo by Airbus Defence and Space. It includes development and in-orbit validation of the new satellite product lines for both companies, allowing the two European satellite prime integrators to deliver competitive satellites for the commercial satellite market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542108,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542107\/revisions\/542108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}