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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ESA awarded two contracts to Thales Alenia Space for elements of the NASA-led lunar Gateway.
The system prototype for the AFI SBAS utilizes the SAGAIE network deployed by the French space agency CNES and ASECNA with support from Thales Alenia Space as the reference stations network.
Airbus and Thales Alenia Space won contracts valued at more than $1,000,000,000 with ESA and the UK in the summer prior to The Space Report 2020 Q3.
Airbus and Thales Alenia Space captured 10 of 17 satellite orders in 2019.
SWISSto12 delivered a large batch of mission-critical waveguide signal interconnects to Thales Alenia Space for the Eutelsat KONNECT VHTS program by 2020-09-30.
Thales Alenia Space built the all-electric Eutelsat Konnect satellite that launched in January 2020.
Thales Alenia Space is manufacturing Konnect VHTS, a Ka-band satellite to offer European fixed broadband and in-flight connectivity service.
SWISSto12 designed, manufactured, and tested the waveguide signal interconnects for Thales Alenia Space over the year preceding 2020-09-30.
Thales Alenia Space plans to install SWISSto12’s 3D-printed waveguide signal interconnects on an Eutelsat Konnect Very High Throughput Satellite (VHTS) scheduled to launch in 2021.
Thales Alenia Space and SWISSto12 are collaborating to expand the use of 3D printing for RF products onboard satellites across LEO, MEO, and GEO orbits.
SWISSto12 delivered a large batch of 3D-printed waveguides to Thales Alenia Space on 2020-09-30.
Through its work with Thales Alenia Space, SWISSto12 seeks to gain flight heritage for its additively manufactured parts and credibility among geostationary communications satellite manufacturers.
Thales Alenia Space signed an 88-million-euro subcontract with Airbus on 2020-09-21 to build CRISTAL’s main instrument.
Thales Alenia Space signed an 88-million-euro contract with Airbus to develop two flight-ready IRIS instruments for the CRISTAL mission.
Boeing and Thales Alenia Space each received orders to build two C-band replacement satellites.
Optus, Yahsat and Arabsat each ordered a satellite from Airbus in 2020, and Hispasat ordered a satellite from Thales Alenia Space.
SES ordered two C-band replacement satellites apiece from Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Thales Alenia Space.
The O3b mPower constellation builds off SES’s current O3b fleet of 20 satellites built by Thales Alenia Space.
The ESA-led competition to select second-generation Galileo suppliers is arranged on behalf of the European Commission and pits OHB against Thales Alenia Space and Airbus Defence and Space.
OHB bested an Airbus and Thales Alenia Space consortium in 2011 to build the Galileo first-generation constellation and has been the prime contractor for the satellites since then.