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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The eight planned BlackSky launches are part of a group of 20 satellites under production at LeoStella, Spaceflight Industries’ joint venture with Thales Alenia Space to manufacture small satellites.
Hemeria will build Kinéis’s satellites with payloads supplied by Thales Alenia Space.
Kinéis selected Thales Alenia Space to build 20 ground stations that will use flat electronically steered antennas to connect to the constellation.
Thales Alenia Space received the manufacturing contract for Nilesat-301 in December.
Thales Alenia Space is building Nilesat-301 based on the Spacebus 4000-B2 platform.
Thales Alenia Space is building the Konnect VHTS satellite using a Spacebus Neo platform.
Thales Alenia Space has sold seven Spacebus Neo satellites since the program began in 2015.
Eutelsat Konnect uses an all-electric propulsion system built by Thales Alenia Space on the Spacebus Neo platform.
Hispasat purchased a satellite from Thales Alenia Space on 2021-01-10.
Thales Alenia Space and Thales Group aim to have a Stratobus flight demonstration by the end of 2023.
Thales Alenia Space and Airbus Defence and Space are competing with Maxar to build the Telesat LEO constellation.
Thales Alenia Space manufactured the 2.2-metric-ton Cosmo-SkyMed satellite for the Italian Space Agency.
Thales Alenia Space will build the NileSat-301 satellite using its Spacebus 4000-B2 platform and will provide ground control infrastructure.
Thales Alenia Space received a contract from Egyptian satellite operator NileSat to build a new geostationary communications satellite.
Thales Alenia Space and Airbus co-built the 5,600-kilogram TIBA-1 satellite, with Airbus supplying the bus and Thales Alenia Space providing the Ka-band payload.
Thales Alenia Space filed for the constellation spectrum LeoSat planned to use, and that filing expires in January 2021 unless a satellite is launched to reserve the frequencies.
Airbus Defence and Space, Maxar Technologies, and Thales Alenia Space are competing to build Telesat’s LEO broadband constellation after Maxar and Thales Alenia split to compete separately.
Thales Alenia Space will build Eutelsat-10B on the Spacebus NEO platform developed with the French and European space agencies.
Thales Alenia Space is reducing its head count by around 500 people due to a slump in geostationary satellite orders.
Eutelsat Communications selected Franco-Italian manufacturer Thales Alenia Space to build a replacement for a geostationary satellite that is roughly three years from retiring.