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 selected NanoAvionics to manufacture the first two satellite buses for Omnispace’s internet-of-things constellation.
LeoStella, a joint venture of Spaceflight Industries and Thales Alenia Space, is building 20 satellites under contract with BlackSky.
LeoStella is the joint venture between Spaceflight Industries and Thales Alenia Space tasked with building BlackSky’s constellation.
Thales Alenia Space frequently supplied payloads for RSCC satellites built by ISS Reshetnev.
Telesat is currently choosing between two bids to build the Telesat LEO constellation after the separation of Maxar and Thales Alenia Space.
Thales Alenia Space is designing Omnispace’s satellites with narrowband radio interfaces based on cellular communications standards.
The prototype satellites Thales Alenia Space is building for Omnispace are fully funded and Omnispace is not currently raising money.
Thales Alenia Space plans to install the Omnispace payload in a bus manufactured by Lithuanian nanosatellite manufacturer NanoAvionics.
Omnispace ordered two prototype spacecraft from Thales Alenia Space on 2020-04-09.
Bangabandhu-1, a communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space for Bangladesh’s Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, launched in May 2018 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Thales Alenia Space was preparing to build 78 to 108 satellites for LeoSat, a startup planning a $3,000,000,000 constellation.
Thales Alenia Space will build a satellite servicer provided it secures a government customer to anchor the program.
Kinéis selected bus supplier Hemeria and payload provider Thales Alenia Space to build 25 cubesats partly because both firms are about a 20-minute drive from Kinéis headquarters near Toulouse, France.
The SES-17 geostationary satellite ordered from Thales Alenia Space is slated to launch on an Ariane 5 rocket.
A minor de-bonding occurred on part of the Rosalind Franklin rover solar array following system environmental tests, and a mechanical fix was planned to be implemented at Thales Alenia Space in Torino.
Telesat planned a 300-satellite LEO constellation and was evaluating manufacturers including Maxar Technologies, Thales Alenia Space, and Airbus Defence and Space.
Thales Alenia Space projected 2020 GEO orders would decline slightly to 12 or 13 satellites.
Airbus finished 2019 with six GEO orders, including three for Inmarsat, one for Measat, and two to be built as lead partner with Thales Alenia Space for Hisdesat.
Three manufacturers—Airbus, Boeing, and Thales Alenia Space—introduced small geostationary satellites weighing 2,000 to 3,000 kg that emphasize lightweight design and reprogrammability.
Thales Alenia Space counted that 70% of satellites ordered in 2019 were digital.