Brussels, 29/04/2005 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has given its conditional blessing for Alcatel, a French electronics company, and Finmeccanica, a company controlled by the Italian State, to combine their space activities in two joint companies. The first, Alcatel Alenia Space, will be involved in the production of satellite subsystems and payload for commercial satellites (e.g. telecommunications) and institutional satellites (e.g. scientific missions, military). The second,...