{"id":318456,"date":"2025-10-20T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/318456\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:46:11","slug":"european-aerospace-giants-join-forces-to-compete-with-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/318456\/","title":{"rendered":"European Aerospace Giants Join Forces to Compete with SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In a strategic move to challenge the advancement of Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX, European aerospace leaders Leonardo, Airbus, and Thales have reached a preliminary agreement to merge their satellite industries. According to sources familiar with the development, Leonardo&#8217;s board is slated to meet on Tuesday to deliberate on the deal&#8217;s specifics.<\/p>\n<p>The merger seeks to establish a formidable satellite manufacturing entity that mirrors the European MBDA missile enterprise. Despite prolonged discussions spanning more than a year, political and valuation disagreements between France and Italy have hindered progress, exacerbated by a government crisis in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The joint venture, valued at approximately 10 billion euros, must overcome the hurdle of an anti-trust review by the European Commission to proceed. As space exploration pivots towards cost-effective satellite production, Europe faces pressure to consolidate its assets or face obsolescence in this rapidly evolving market.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; In a strategic move to challenge the advancement of Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX, European aerospace leaders Leonardo, Airbus,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":318457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[93163,66,159880,16446,79931,159882,159883,159881,159,783,2527,120881,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-318456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-airbus","9":"tag-elon-musk","10":"tag-european-aerospace","11":"tag-european-commission","12":"tag-leonardo","13":"tag-project-bromo","14":"tag-satellite-market","15":"tag-satellite-merger","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-space","18":"tag-spacex","19":"tag-thales","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115406332575861931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}