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The satellite was engineered and built by Astrium, with a public-private partnership between the ESA and Inmarsat, primarily to expand Inmarsat\u0092s existing global mobile network.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was also the first flight of Alphabus, the new European telecommunications satellite, developed by Astrium and Thales Alenia Space in partnership with the ESA and the French Space Agency (CNES).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alphasat is also carrying four technology demonstration payloads: an environmental and radiation testing sensor from Efacec (Portugal); the Aldo Paraboni Q\/V-band experiment from Thales Alenia Space and Space Engineering (Italy); a star tracker from Jena-Optronik (Germany); and the laser communication terminal from TESAT (Germany), provided by the DLR German Aerospace Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphasat is designed to expand Inmarsat\u0092s existing global mobile network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2141,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-noticias-sobre-enreach"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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