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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The combined Airbus-Leonardo-Thales space entity will employ around 25,000 people across Europe.
Eutelsat cancelled its FlexSat Americas GEO satellite, which had been ordered from Thales Alenia Space in 2022 as a software-defined satellite.
Teams of Thales Alenia Space in France and Italy are part of the Celeste industrial consortium supported by partners in Spain and Germany.
Thales Alenia Space is building five of the 11 Celeste microsatellites.
The first In-Orbit Demonstrator satellite for Celeste, IOD-2, left Thales Alenia Space’s site in L’Aquila bound for Berlin and then onward to the launch base in New Zealand.
Thales Alenia Space will build the European GNSS Service Demonstrator (ESD).
EUSPA signed a contract framework with Thales Alenia Space on Feb. 17 to develop the European GNSS Service Demonstrator.
The European Union Agency for the Space Programme awarded a framework contract to Thales Alenia Space on February 12, 2026 to oversee the design, development, and deployment of the European Global Navigation Satellite System Service Demonstrator (ESD).
The framework contract with Thales Alenia Space follows a series of infrastructure upgrades aimed at maintaining European autonomy in Positioning, Navigation, and Timing data.
Thales Alenia Space will lead development of the EGNSS Service Demonstrator to deliver enhanced performance and resilience for millions of European and global users of GNSS-based applications and services.
Eutelsat canceled its order for the Flexsat Americas satellite that it had ordered from Thales Alenia Space in 2022.
Eutelsat canceled procurement of Flexsat Americas, a software-defined satellite it ordered from Thales Alenia Space in 2022.
Thales Alenia Space signed a contract to provide Earth observation capabilities to Indonesia.
At the end of 2025, Thales Alenia Space selected OHB to supply multiple subsystems for the descent module of the ESA Argonaut lunar lander.
Thales Alenia Space builds Copernicus sentinels for European science and supplies space infrastructure to export clients where 99% of the need is for defense applications.
In late 2025 Thales Alenia Space selected OHB to provide multiple subsystems for the descent element of the European Space Agency’s Argonaut lunar lander.
Thales Alenia Space is the prime contractor for the overall MTG mission.
Thales Alenia Space operates a site in Tres Cantos where 450 professionals work in facilities specialized in the design and manufacture of satellite subsystems and payloads.
The Madrid delegation visited Thales Alenia Space and other Italian companies that have a footprint in the Community of Madrid.
Thales Alenia Space’s Tres Cantos facilities are among the most important in Europe for satellite subsystems and payloads.