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 and KT SAT will lead a 0.005 kg demonstration using the geostationary Koreasat-5A telecommunications satellite to provide 0.005 kg service to remote areas.
Arabsat-1A, the first Arabsat satellite, was built by Alcatel Alenia in 1985.
Omnispace awarded a contract to Thales Alenia Space in April 2020 to build two small satellites that will serve as prototypes for a future constellation.
Nilesat 301 is a commercial geostationary satellite being built by Thales Alenia Space.
Thales Alenia signed a contract with the French defense procurement agency DGA in 2021 for a concept study of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance applications using the Stratobus™.
Nilesat 301 is being built by Thales Alenia Space at its Mandelieu facility near Cannes on the Côte d’Azur.
Thales Alenia Space subcontracted much of the smallsat work to other companies, with NanoAvionics building the satellite buses, Syrlinks building the S-band payloads, and Anywaves building the antennas.
The European Commission awarded two contracts for 12 second-generation Galileo satellites to Thales Alenia Space (Italy) and Airbus Defence & Space (Germany) for a total of EUR 1.47 billion.
The European Commission awarded two contracts for 12 satellites (six satellites each) to Thales Alenia Space (Italy) and Airbus Defence & Space (Germany) for close to $1,790,000,000 following an open competition.
Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space will each build six second-generation Galileo satellites under contracts to be formally signed at the end of January.
The European Commission announced on 2021-01-20 that it will award contracts to Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space to build an initial set of next-generation Galileo navigation satellites.
Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with ESA worth 2,800,000 EUR for the study, design, manufacture, and test of the ATHENA Mirror Assembly Module Demonstrator.
The European Space Agency signed a nearly €296 million ($362,000,000) contract with Thales Alenia Space on 2021-01-07 to build a European module for NASA’s lunar Gateway space station.
Thales Alenia Space was selected on 2020-10-14 to build the ESPRIT Gateway module and the selection was finalized with a signed contract on 2021-01-07.
CSO-2 carries an imaging payload provided by Thales Alenia Space that delivers high-resolution images at optical and infrared wavelengths for daytime and nighttime observations.
On 2020-12-15, the Italian government ordered two additional Cosmo-SkyMed radar imaging satellites from Thales Alenia Space and contracted Telespazio to upgrade the constellation’s ground segment.
Thales Alenia Space Italy will build Space Rider’s reusable reentry module under the 2020-12-09 contract.
The European Space Agency finalized a €167 million contract with Thales Alenia Space Italy and Avio on 2020-12-09 in Rome to deliver Space Rider.
Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between Thales, which holds 67%, and Leonardo, which holds 33%.
Thales Alenia Space selected Airbus to build the advanced radar instrument for the Radar Observatory System for Europe in L-band (ROSE-L) mission.