Women's equality has been placed at the heart of French Government priorities, by decree no. 2019-15 of January 8, 2019. In this context, French companies with more than 50 employees, required to calculate an “equal pay index”, each year.

Telespazio, a subsidiary of Thales and Leonardo groups, is the trusted French operator facilitating access to space and the exploitation of space infrastructures for its institutional customers, primarily CNES and MinArm. In the field of access to space, Telespazio has been operating and maintaining most of the electronic means at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guyana, for over 40 years on behalf of CNES and Arianespace. To this end, Telespazio France teams in Kourou played a crucial role in the preparation and during the launch of Ariane 6 FM1, ensuring that all systems were operational.

Following two France 2030 requests for proposals issued by CNES¹  to demonstrate various in-orbit services, the consortium formed by the two companies and led by Infinite Orbits was selected by CNES for both missions.

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