France, Sept. 10 -- Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announces today it has signed a Letter of Agreement with Eutelsat to provide the governmental payloads dedicated to the 330 IRIS2 telecommunications satellites in Low Earth Orbit (66 Ka-only satellites and 264 dual Ku/Ka satellites).This order represents a tranche of approximately 500 million euros out of a global IRIS² contract size for Thales Alenia Space which is set to exceed 3 billion euros overall.The future IRIS2 (Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite) constellation will be the new standard bearer for Europe's autonomous and sovereign space capability.This system will comprise, to date, a total of 3...