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.