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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Telkom-3S was built by Thales Alenia Space on the Spacebus 4000B2 platform and was launched in 2017.
Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with PT Telkom Satelit Indonesia (Telkomsat) to build the HTS 113BT satellite.
Sentinel-1C, built by Thales Alenia Space, is scheduled for launch in 2022.
Thales Alenia Space will supply the ground control segment for HTS 113BT and will train and support the Telkomsat engineering team on site.
Indonesia ordered a high-throughput communications satellite named HTS 113BT from Thales Alenia Space for delivery in 2024.
PSN has another satellite on order called SATRIA that Thales Alenia Space is building for a launch in the first semester of 2023.
Ariane 5 VA255 successfully orbited two satellites built by Thales Alenia Space: SES-17 and SYRACUSE 4A.
The SYRACUSE French military satellite communications program began in 1980 and deployed three generations of satellites built by Thales Alenia Space between 1984 and 2015.
Telesat selected Thales Alenia Space to build its broadband low Earth orbit constellation in 2022.
Maxar partnered with Thales Alenia Space in 2018 on a proposal to build Telesat’s broadband low Earth orbit constellation, but Thales Alenia and Maxar later split and pursued separate bids.
Decreasing a satellite’s altitude from 650 km to 160 km yields a 64x reduction in radar RF power, a 16x reduction in communications RF power, and a 4x reduction in optical aperture diameter to achieve the same performance, according to Thales Alenia Space.
SES completed performance tests for the SES-17 satellite at the Thales Alenia Space facility in Cannes.
Thales Alenia Space signed its first contract with the EU Agency for Space Programme (EUSPA) to provide new capabilities to the EGNOS satellite navigation system.
Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%).
Thales Alenia Space is developing and testing SBAS next-generation architectures and capabilities.
NorthStar tapped Thales Alenia Space to build the first three Skylark satellites for a launch in the first quarter of 2023.
NorthStar contracted Thales Alenia Space to build three satellites to provide space situational awareness services.
Thales Alenia Space inaugurated a new satellite integration clean room in Tres Cantos, Madrid.
Thales Alenia Space leads the development of communications payloads in UHF and military-Ka bands for both satellites in Spain.
The new clean room adds more than 600 m2 of clean area to the existing 2000 m2 clean area at the Thales Alenia Space site in Tres Cantos.