Italy is to design modules for
the future space station orbiting the Moon, sources said
Thursday.
Contracts worth some $2.5 million plus co-funding have been
signed by Thales Alenia Space (Thales 67%, Leonardo
33%) with Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Orbital-ATK within the
framework of the Next Space Technologies for Exploration
Partnerships promoted by NASA with private companies.
The announcement was made by Walter Cugno, Thales Alenia
Space vice president for Exploration and Science and head of its
Turin site.
Cugno said the contracts were for projects concerning "both
the habitat of the near-Moon space station and the architecture
of the whole station, which is supposed to be much smaller than
the International Space Station".
photo: Thalese Alenia Space CEO Donato Amoroso
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