Boeing, Mitsubishi tie up

Boeing, Mitsubishi tie up

LE BOURGET, France (AFP): US aircraft giant Boeing said on
Wednesday it has struck a strategic alliance in the aerospace
sector with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation of Japan.

Boeing said in a statement at the Paris Air Show that the
alliance covered space-based communications, air traffic
management, multimedia, navigation, space and communications
services, launch services and space infrastructure markets.

It said the agreement included up to six launches of the
Boeing Delta rocket which lifts satellites into geostationary
transfer orbit and confirmed the Boeing Delta team as
Mitsubishi's preferred non-Japanese launch service provider for
satellites.

They said the new launch service was expected to be finalized
later this year.

The general manager of Mitsubishi's space systems division,
Hiroshi Kimura, said the companies wanted to benefit from new
opportunities in the areas of air traffic management systems, the
application of new radar systems, space-based broadband
communication and Internet services for multimedia business
applications.