France, Sept. 11 -- On the sidelines of the International Space Summit, Catherine Vautrin, France's Minister for the Armed Forces and Veterans' Affairs, announced that the Directorate-General for Armament (DGA) had awarded the CASSIOPÉE contract to Airbus Defence and Space as the lead contractor and its co-contractor Unseenlabs, thereby initiating the renewal of France's space-based signal intelligence (SIGINT) capability.Airbus will act as the system integrator and provide the ground segment and control centre as well as a satellite solution based on its latest-generation S250 platform, which has been used most recently for the CO3D constellation. Unseenlabs will bring its expertise in mission planning, ground and on-board processing, will...