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 will develop a Large Deployable Reflector (LDR) antenna enabling the I-MIM orbiter to establish high-data-rate communications with ground stations in Ka-band and X-band.
Thales Alenia Space will develop an innovative deep-space antenna to connect fixed or mobile infrastructure on Mars with Earth capable of transmitting acquired radar images and science data.
Thales Alenia Space completed a Phase A award for I-MIM that was granted in 2021 and successfully completed in 2022.
Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture owned 67% by Thales and 33% by Leonardo.
Thales Alenia Space signed a Phase B1 contract with the Italian Space Agency to develop the communications subsystem for the International Mars Ice Mapper (I-MIM) mission.
Thales Alenia Space’s clean room area in Cannes is approximately 15,000 square meters, which is three times the clean room area planned for the Rome factory.
Thales Alenia Space built small satellites for Italy’s IRIDE Earth constellation under an initial 142,000,000 EUR contract funded entirely through pandemic relief funds to provide six satellites.
Thales Alenia Space plans to produce about two 200-kilogram satellites per week at the Space Smart Factory if customer demand materializes.
Thales Alenia Space has produced satellite platforms in Cannes, payloads in Toulouse, and integrated satellites at its existing facility in Rome.
More than 100,000,000 EUR is being invested to set up the Space Smart Factory, with less than a third of that investment coming from Italy’s National Plan for Recovery and Resilience and the remainder funded by Thales Alenia Space.
Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture owned 67% by Thales and 33% by Leonardo.
Thales Alenia Space built HTS-113BT on its historical Spacebus 4000B2 platform.
Thales Alenia Space won a contract from Ball Aerospace to provide key communications components for NASA’s NEO Surveyor spacecraft destined for the Earth–Sun Lagrange point 1.
The contract for Thales Alenia Space to supply communications components for NEO Surveyor was announced on 2024-02-13.
Thales Alenia Space and PT Len Industri have a multi-mission contract to provide an Earth observation constellation combining radar and optical sensors dedicated to the Indonesian Ministry of Defense.
BlackSky will work with Thales Alenia Space to build and deliver sovereign electro-optical (EO) and synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellites for Indonesia.
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has a first-of-its-kind contract with Thales Alenia Space to support the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Indonesia by delivering Gen-3 Earth Observation satellites, ground station capabilities, and flight operations support.
The sovereign EO and SAR satellites to be built and delivered by BlackSky and Thales Alenia Space are intended to provide Indonesia surveillance capability at a fraction of the cost and time of designing a homegrown capability.
Thales Alenia Space and PT Len Industri signed a multi-mission contract to provide a state-of-the-art Earth observation constellation combining radar and optical sensors dedicated to the Indonesian Ministry of Defense.
Thales Alenia Space will develop the synthetic aperture radar satellites for Indonesia’s dedicated Earth observation constellation.