e2v and Thales Alenia Space Sign Two Contracts Totalling €4M

e2v signed two contracts worth a total of €4M with Thales Alenia Space, for the supply of CCDs to equip the High-Resolution (HR) optical imaging instruments for Earth observation satellites: for Göktürk satellite system for the Turkish Ministry of Defence and for Seosat-Ingenio, the first Spanish Earth observation satellite.

The sensors will be delivered over a 2 year period from July 2011.