Development of the new satellite, made in cooperation between the two large European satellite manufacturers, take into account the best lessons learned from previous incarnations of similar satellites: the Spacebus and Eurostar families, respectively from Thales Alenia Space and EADS Astrium Satellites.
•
The first service module of the new Alphabus completed its first journey at the end of January 2010 – from Cannes to Toulouse, in France.