JAPAN'S MITSUBISHI WILL PROVIDE H3 ROCKETS FOR FRANCE'S EUTELSAT FROM 2027

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has agreed to provide multiple H3 rocket launches for French satellite company Eutelsat Group from 2027, it said on Wednesday.

The deal is a major overseas win for Japan's 220 billion yen ($1.55 billion) state-backed rocket project H3, which in February achieved its first successful flight after a failure last year. Eutelsat, the world's third-biggest satellite operator by revenue, would become the second foreign client for H3 after Britain's Inmarsat, according to MHI.

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