Ultracor Quartz to Fly on Galileo
March 18, 2010. Livermore, California. Ultracor, a market leader in engineered composite honeycomb design and fabrication, announced that its quartz honeycomb will continue to serve as a high performance constituent material in the Galileo GPS constellation. Thales Alenia Space originally selected Ultracor quartz honeycomb for the first four Galileo satellites scheduled for launch later in 2010. Germany’s OHB, which won a contract for the next eight satellites, has selected Thales Alenia Space to supply the antennas, thus ratifying the original antenna design using Ultracor quartz honeycomb.