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Loral & Alcatel Plan Europe*Star
New York, February 20, 1998 - Loral Space & Communications and Alcatel Alsthom of France today announced that they will jointly build and operate Europe*Star, a multiple geostationary satellite system that will provide broadcast and telecommunications services to nearly half the world -- from Western Europe to Southeast Asia, including Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South Africa and India, as a part of a global network of operating companies that will use a common marketing strategy to provide customers "one stop shopping" for local, regional, and global satellite services.Europe*Star will join Loral Skynet's "Global Marketing Alliance," a worldwide sales and marketing coalition comprised of Loral Skynet, Satelites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V. (SatMex), and Orion Network Systems, Inc. As such, Europe*Star's satellite services and capacity will be also globally-marketed by other Loral alliance members through Loral Skynet's global booking service. "Europe*Star will be a splendid addition to Loral's ever expanding global network of satellite services," said Bernard L. Schwartz, chairman and chief executive officer of Loral Space & Communications. "This development puts Loral solidly on track as being the world's leading provider of global satellite services." The three-satellite Europe*Star system, ideally located between Europe and Asia at 43E, 45E, and 47.5E, will be the first European Ku-band satellite system to be able to directly connect Europe and Asia in one single hop -- providing telecommunications, high-rate data interchange (Internet, on-line service access), and television and distribution services. Alcatel Espace of Toulouse, France, will serve as the prime contractor of the Europe*Star turnkey system. Space Systems/Loral, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications, will build the bus, and test and integrate the satellites at its Palo Alto, Calif., facility. Alcatel Espace will provide the payload. Overall project costs for the first satellite are estimated at approximately $300 million. "The Europe*Star program perfectly illustrates the capacity of Alcatel to promote and develop complete end-to-end space communications systems, in the framework of international cooperation," said Alain Roger, chief executive officer of Europe*Star. Europe*Star's satellite operations will be provided from Alcatel's facilities in Toulouse, France, with the support of Loral Skynet's satellite control facilities in Hawley, Pa. Europe*Star was first initiated by Dr. Schulte-Hillen, chairman of Scientific Consulting GmbH in Cologne, Germany, who filed for orbital positions with German authorities in 1991. Alcatel joined the project in early 1996.
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