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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Thales Alenia Space is leading the industrial cooperation for the geostationary satellite project.
Thales Alenia Space has signed an industrial cooperation agreement with RADMOR and Airbus Defense and Space to build the spacecraft.
A consortium of Thales Alenia Space, RADMOR, and Airbus Defense and Space will jointly develop a geostationary defense telecommunications satellite dedicated to the Polish Ministry of Defense.
Thales Alenia Space Italia is the industrial lead for Space Rider testing and the co-prime contractor for the program with Avio.
HALO is a Gateway module that was part of NASA’s contribution to the station and whose primary structure was manufactured in Italy by Thales Alenia Space.
Thales Alenia Space manufactured HALO’s primary structure in Italy and has also produced the Columbus laboratory, the Harmony module, and pressurized cargo modules for the Cygnus spacecraft.
Thales Alenia Space said repairs to HALO and Lunar I-HAB were ongoing.
Thales Alenia Space said the HALO surface issue would be fixed by the end of the third quarter of 2026.
In October 2020, the European Space Agency awarded Thales Alenia Space a contract to develop and manufacture the Lunar I-HAB module.
The Exploration Company and Thales Alenia Space were awarded Phase 1 contracts for ESA’s LEO Cargo Return Services initiative in May 2024.
Thales Alenia Space is contributing the imaging spectrometer for Sentinel-5P and the Poseidon-4 radar altimeter for Sentinel-6.
Thales Alenia Space builds the Meteosat Third Generation imaging satellites, while OHB builds the atmospheric sounding satellites.
Thales Alenia Space is the prime contractor for Meteosat Third Generation.
Thales Alenia Space is responsible for the Sentinel-2 ground imaging segment.
Massimo Claudio Comparini is the managing director of Space Division at Leonardo and the chairman of the board of Thales Alenia Space.
Thales Alenia Space is the prime contractor for the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-3 satellite series, with four satellites in each mission.
Thales Alenia Space designed, developed, and operates Earth-observation satellites that provide environmental data for air quality, wave height, sea-level rise, ice melt, deforestation, natural-resource management, and disaster preparedness.
Thales Alenia Space will build 12 SAR satellites and one optical satellite for IRIDE.
Thales Alenia Space was selected for five of the six new Copernicus expansion missions.
Thales Alenia Space is the payload supplier for the Copernicus expansion missions CO2M and CRISTAL.