ales Alenia Space and I Reshetnev create Joint Venture in Ruia

28 February 2013

Moscow, February 28, 2013 Jean Loc Galle, President and CEO of Thales Alenia Space, and Nikolay Testoedov, General Designer and General Director of ISS Reshetnev Company, today signed the Agreement for the creation of a Joint Venture between their two companies.

The signature took place in Moscow, in a ceremony attended by leading authorities from France and Russia, including presidents Franois Hollande and Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Popovkin, head of the Federal space agency (Roskosmos), and Jean de Gliniasty., French ambassador to Russia.

The new company, incorporated under Russian law and with ISS holding a majority stake, will be based in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. It marks the first phase of the bilateral collaboration targeted by the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the two companies in November 2011, during the French-Russian intergovernmental conference in Moscow.

The jointly-owned company will initially focus on the production of equipment meeting the most demanding international standards for use on Russian telecommunications satellites. It will then work on the development of new products for satellites, enabling it to more completely address the requirements of both Russian and international markets in the future, where ISS, in collaboration with Thales Alenia Space, has already won several business opportunities.

Our collaboration with Thales Alenia Space is an example of mutually advantageous attitudes. Creating the Joint Venture enabling to manufacture some components of payload domestically, we expect to get an access to new niche in the market of Russia and abroad, said Nikolay Testoedov, General Designer and General Director of ISS Reshetnev Company.

This initiative clearly reflects a long-standing commitment of the French (CNES) and Russian (Roskosmos) space agencies; one where the French space industry has been reactive since the 1990s especially through the joint work undertaken by Thales Alenia Space and ISS.

Todays initiative culminates some 20 years of joint success with our partner ISS and over 20 jointly built satellites, said Jean Loc Galle, President and CEO of Thales Alenia Space. Its a major milestone that cements our bonds in a shared, ambitious, pivotal and promising future. We are also very proud of continuing to contribute to the development of the Russian space industry. The partnership with ISS is absolutely a strategic one for Thales Alenia Space. The joint venture we have created today will enable us to assemble, integrate and test telecom satellite equipment that meets the most exacting standards, thus driving a significant increase in our business volume. I am firmly convinced that, through this joint venture, Thales Alenia Space and ISS-Reshetnev will be able to meet our upcoming challenges even more successfully than before.

About Thales Alenia Space

The European leader in satellite systems and a major player in orbital infrastructures, Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Finmeccanica (33%). Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio embody the two groups' Space Alliance. Thales Alenia Space sets the global standard in solutions for space telecommunications, radar and optical Earth observation, defense and security, navigation and science. With consolidated revenues of 2.1 billion euros in 2011, Thales Alenia Space has 7,500 employees in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium and the United States.

www.thalesaleniaspace.com

Thales Alenia Space Press Contacts:

Sandrine Bielecki - Tel: +33 (0)4 92 92 70 94

sandrine.bielecki@thalesaleniaspace.com

Tarik Lahlou - Tel: +33 (0)4 92 92 68 45

tarik.lahlou@thalesaleniaspace.com

About ISS-Reshetnev Company

The Russian leader in satellite manufacture for communication, navigation and geodesy purposes, ISS-Reshetnev is a Company with ten entities integrated as a whole with the aggregate number of the personnel about 14000 people. The Headquarters plant is located in Krasnoyarsk region. The Company enters into the five of world leaders on number of the signed contracts to produce communication spacecrafts. For half a century of successful activity the specialists of ISS created more than 1200 satellites and put into operation more than 40 satellite systems.

www.iss-reshetnev.com

ISS Reshetnev Company Press Contacts:

Svetlana Bashkova - Tel: +7 (3919) 764525

pressa@iss-reshetnev.ru

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