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 the prime contractor for Space Rider’s reentry module.
Thales Alenia Space views US technology export restrictions as a risk rather than a showstopper.
Thales Alenia Space subcontracted CIRA to develop and test Space Rider’s thermal protection system.
Thales Alenia Space spends more than $100 million per year in the United States.
Thales Alenia Space is a European space hardware manufacturer.
ESA awarded HydRON Element 2 to Thales Alenia Space.
The HydRON network includes a low Earth orbit satellite collector developed with Thales Alenia Space.
Celeste IOD-1 and Thales Alenia Space’s IOD-2 are the two satellites in the first Celeste phase that will generate navigation signals and secure the assigned frequencies.
Many of the Express and Yamal satellite constellations were built by Airbus and Thales Alenia Space before sanctions were imposed.
Persei Space leads the ECO-Tethers study, a European Space Agency-funded contract that includes Thales Alenia Space Italia and Astroscale France.
Thales Alenia Space is building the Multi-Purpose Habitat for NASA and the Italian Space Agency in Turin.
Thales Alenia Space is developing the European lunar lander Argonaut for ESA in Turin.
Thales Alenia Space developed the European Service Module structure and critical subsystems for Artemis II in Turin.
Thales Alenia Space Italia is developing the multi-purpose lunar habitation module under an Italian Space Agency contract.
Thales Alenia Space will supply five satellites for the first phase of ESA’s Celeste mission.
IOD-2 was built by Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture owned 67% by Thales and 33% by Leonardo.
Thales Alenia Space is developing four additional IOD satellites for the Celeste mission.
Thales Alenia Space is developing four additional satellites for the next phase of the Celeste program.
Thales Alenia Space built IOD-2 as a testbed for core technologies for a full LEO navigation layer.
Celeste IOD-2, developed by Thales Alenia Space, launched at 10:14 peninsular time and separated from the launcher about one hour later.