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 ESA commercial cargo program awarded contracts for initial studies to Thales Alenia Space and The Exploration Company on 2024-05-22, a little more than six months after ESA announced it would formally begin the program.
The European Space Agency awarded study contracts worth about 25,000,000 EUR each to Thales Alenia Space and The Exploration Company on 2024-05-22.
The Thales Alenia Space–led team will develop a new landing platform for the Rosalind Franklin rover while NASA will provide engines and radioisotope heating units not readily available in Europe.
ESA is developing its own landing system for the Rosalind Franklin rover and awarded a contract worth 522,000,000 EUR to Thales Alenia Space on 2024-04-09 to restart work on the mission.
Former QinetiQ Space is working with Thales Alenia Space on SkimSat, a VLEO platform for Earth-observation applications funded by the European Space Agency.
Beyond Gravity’s site in Vienna, Austria produces control electronics for the antenna mechanisms on the six Galileo satellites built by Thales Alenia Space to establish direct communication between the satellites.
Beyond Gravity supplies products to both Airbus and Thales Alenia Space for the Galileo Second Generation satellite program.
Beyond Gravity’s site in Austria is supplying a total of 12 gimballing mechanisms for the electric thrusters on the six Galileo Second Generation satellites built by Thales Alenia Space.
Thales Alenia Space is responsible for designing the Entry, Descent, and Landing Module and developing its radar altimeter for ExoMars 2028.
Thales Alenia Space teams in France are responsible for developing the rear shield portion of the aeroshell and the parachute for ExoMars 2028.
Thales Alenia Space in Italy is leading a consortium for ExoMars 2028 that includes Airbus Defence & Space (UK), ArianeGroup (France), OHB (Germany), and ALTEC (Italy).
Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%).
Thales Alenia Space signed a framework contract with the European Space Agency worth a total of €522m to continue activities for the completion of the ExoMars 2028 mission.
An industry consortium that includes Airbus Defence and Space, Thales Alenia Space, and Arianespace completed a final proposal to the European Commission for the IRIS² constellation with the expectation that the contract would be awarded by the end of March.
One of the 2022 ESA HydRON study contracts was led by Airbus and another was led by Thales Alenia Space.
The European Space Agency awarded a contract worth 522,000,000 EUR to a consortium led by Thales Alenia Space to restart work on the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission.
Thales Alenia Space engineers are completing the Cygnus vehicle for NG-21 in clean rooms where final system verification and testing are underway for delivery to Northrop Grumman in May 2024.
Thales Alenia Space successfully completed a new expanded Cygnus primary structure with a payload capacity of up to 5,000 kg and a volume of 36 m3.
Thales Alenia Space is building and will deliver up to 25 Cygnus pressurized cargo modules for its client.
The Cygnus spacecraft comprises a Service Module from Northrop Grumman and a pressurized cargo module developed and built by Thales Alenia Space.