Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS) is a global company and a subsidiary of the French Space Agency (CNES) and CNP, providing Earth monitoring and surveillance solutions since 1986. CLS specializes in delivering satellite-based services, including environmental monitoring, maritime surveillance, and fleet management. They operate the ARGOS data collection and location system and work with organizations like NOAA, ESA, and the European Commission's Copernicus program. CLS is also involved in processing data from satellites for sea surface temperature, ocean color, and radar imagery.
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Ground Control is delivering the Türkiye rollout in partnership with its parent company, CLS Group.
MDA Space is acquiring Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS).
MDA Space agreed to acquire a 70% majority stake in French Earth observation company Collecte Localisation Satellites for approximately $920 million (€567 million).
Stéphanie Limouzin is the President of The CLS Group.
CNES will collaborate with various French scientific teams, laboratories, and industrial companies such as LOPS, LEGOS, IGE, MIO, IETR, DATLAS, ODL, CLS, and TAS on the ODYSEA mission.
Major financial partners supporting the Kinéis project include Bpifrance, CLS, BNP Paribas Développement, CELAD, Maison Julien et Kelly Dassault, and Ethics Group.
CLS and CNES invested in Kinéis’ 2020 funding round alongside French export-import bank Bpifrance and industrial partners Thales Group, cubesat builder Hemeria, and software engineering firm Celad.
Kinéis was spun off in 2018 from French maritime and environmental monitoring company CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites) to upgrade the Argos network with a constellation of nanosatellites in low Earth orbit.
Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS) led the 100,000,000 EUR funding round for Kinéis.
CLS is transferring responsibility for maritime IoT services for nearly 20,000 vessels connected through the CNES-built hosted payload network Argos to Kineis.