ESA’s Neosat programme, started in February 2014, is supporting prime contractors Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space for the full development and qualification of their new generation of satellite platform product lines.
The programme includes the in-orbit validation and crucial ‘flight heritage’ for the new platform product line Eurostar Neo from Airbus Defence and Space.
Neosat is element 14 of ESA’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems programme, ARTES.