Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between Thales Group (67%) and Leonardo (33%), headquartered in Cannes, France. As a major European space manufacturer, it designs and delivers high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth observation, environmental management, exploration, science, and orbital infrastructures. Thales Alenia Space is a key partner with agencies like ESA and NASA, contributing to programs like Galileo, Copernicus, the International Space Station (ISS), and the Lunar Gateway, and also partners with Siemens to explore new tools and methods for satellite testing.
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Airbus Defence and Space, Thales Alenia Space, and OHB SE are among the European primes most exposed to hydrazine use in satellite integration.
Leonardo is strengthening its Space Division with Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space Italia.
A major earthquake in April 2009 damaged Thales Alenia Space’s electronic component fabrication facility in L’Aquila, Italy, during assembly of early payload hardware for Globalstar’s program.
Globalstar Inc. cited a major earthquake in April 2009 that damaged Thales Alenia Space’s electronic component fabrication facility in L’Aquila, Italy, as the basis for its extension request.
Thales Alenia Space will contribute spacecraft propulsion subsystem expertise to REEF.
Orbit Fab and Thales Alenia Space in the United Kingdom will collaborate on REEF.
Orbit Fab and Thales Alenia Space are preparing REEF, a ground-based satellite refueling demonstrator for electric propulsion systems intended to be serviced in orbit.
Thales Alenia Space is responsible for the satellite’s design, manufacturing, testing, delivery, and associated ground segment.
Es’hailSat selected Thales Alenia Space to design and build the Eshail-3/Türksat-Biruni telecommunications satellite for geostationary orbit.
Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between Thales and Leonardo.
Eshail-3/Türksat-Biruni will use Thales Alenia Space’s Space Inspire software-defined platform.
Thales Alenia Space’s contract with Es’hailSat includes integration of hosted payloads for commercial or government needs.
ESA awarded Thales Alenia Space a €522 million contract in April 2024 to replace most of the Russian hardware for ExoMars, including a new descent platform.
Thales Alenia Space will serve as prime contractor for Eshail-3/Türksat-Biruni and handle its design, manufacturing, testing, ground delivery, ground segment, and associated services.
Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between France’s Thales and Italy’s Leonardo.
Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between Thales and Leonardo.
Thales Alenia Space has signed an agreement with Es’hailSat to develop a next-generation software-defined satellite based on its Space Inspire platform.
On June 30, 2026, Thales Alenia Space signed a definitive contract with Es’hailSat to design and manufacture the next-generation software-defined telecommunications satellite Eshail-3/Türksat-Biruni.
Es'hailSat and Türksat have contracted Thales Alenia Space to build the Es'hail-3/Türksat-Biruni satellite.
Thales Alenia Space is the prime contractor for Es’hail-3 and is responsible for design, production, integration, testing, delivery, ground segment, and associated services.