{"id":646204,"date":"2025-09-15T08:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=646204"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:37:59","slug":"airbus-thales-leonardo-could-sign-first-deal-this-year-on-satellite-tie-up-airbus-executive-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airbus-thales-leonardo-could-sign-first-deal-this-year-on-satellite-tie-up-airbus-executive-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus, Thales, Leonardo could sign first deal this year on satellite tie-up, Airbus executive says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European aerospace groups Leonardo, Thales and Airbus could sign an initial agreement to combine their satellite businesses as early as this year, the head of Airbus&#8217; defence and space division said in an interview on Sunday, confirming an earlier Reuters report.<\/p>\n<p>Under &#8220;Project Bromo,&#8221; Leonardo, Thales and Airbus plan to set up a satellite manufacturing company to compete with rivals from China and the U.S., including Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re on the right track, but several issues still need to be clarified before taking such a major step,&#8221; Airbus Defence and Space CEO Michael Schoellhorn told Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European aerospace groups Leonardo, Thales and Airbus could sign an initial agreement to combine their satellite businesses as early as this year, the head of Airbus&#8217; defence and space division said in an interview on Sunday, confirming an earlier Reuters report. Under &#8220;Project Bromo,&#8221; Leonardo, Thales and Airbus plan to set up a satellite manufacturing company to compete with rivals from China and the U.S., including Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink. &#8220;We&#8217;re on the right track, but several issues still need to be clarified before taking such a major step,&#8221; Airbus Defence and Space CEO Michael Schoellhorn told Italian daily Il Corriere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}