MILAN – Thales Alenia Space and Argotec announced contracts Oct. 16 to supply satellites for Italy’s IRIDE Earth-observation constellation. Thales Alenia Space will contribute six radar satellites and Argotec will provide 15 optical satellites, under contracts announced at the International Astronautical Congress here. The total value of the two contracts is more than 140 million euros ($152 million). IRIDE, a project funded by Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan and managed by the European Space Agency and the Italian space agency ASI, is an ambitious campaign to launch Europe’s largest…
