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 is 33% owned by Italian aerospace firm Leonardo.
Eutelsat and Thales Alenia Space signed a letter of agreement on 2019-10-29 for the production of Eutelsat-10B.
Thales Alenia Space will add 600 square meters of clean room space at its Tres Cantos, Madrid, facility to support integration of telecom, navigation, Earth observation, and science spacecraft.
The new clean room space at Thales Alenia Space’s Tres Cantos facility will feature bridge cranes capable of lifting 12,000 kg each for large mission integrations.
Thales Alenia Space’s Tres Cantos facility will have 2,600 square meters of total clean room space once the expansion is completed in fall 2020.
LeoSat began working with Thales Alenia Space in 2014 to design a constellation of up to 108 low Earth orbit satellites intended to provide connectivity with large volumes of low-latency capacity for premium customers.
LeoSat is seeking competing bids beyond design partner Thales Alenia Space to build a smaller constellation of lighter satellites.
LeoSat has not ruled out hiring Thales Alenia Space to build its scaled-down constellation while also seeking bids from other manufacturers.
Turkish Aerospace Industries helped build Gokturk-1 with Thales Alenia Space.
Iridium borrowed $1,800,000,000 in 2010 from a syndicate of banks through a credit facility from BPIAE to finance the purchase of 81 satellites from Thales Alenia Space.
Thales Alenia Space is reducing its workforce by around 6 percent.
More than 50 percent of the planned workforce reduction will occur in Thales Alenia Space’s telecommunications business.
Thales Alenia Space is building Inspire satellites only with Ku- and Ka-band capacity.
The planned 500-person reduction at Thales Alenia Space will take place mainly in France.
Thales Alenia Space CEO Jean-Luïc Gall projects that two-thirds of flexible geostationary satellites after 2022 or 2023 will be medium to large satellites characterized by a 10- to 15-kilowatt power range.
Telesat is expected to choose soon between Airbus Defence and Space and a team formed by Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space to start building its 300-satellite LEO broadband constellation.
Airbus and Thales Alenia Space executives forecast that 10 to 18 GEO satellites will be ordered annually for the next few years.
Boeing won the WGS-11 military communications satellite order and Thales Alenia Space Italy won the Ital-GovSatCom military communications satellite order under tenders not open to the global market.
Thales Alenia Space received an order in July 2019 to build the defense-focused Ital-GovSatCom satellite under contract from the Italian Space Agency.
Reluctance by geostationary operators to buy new satellites is weighing down Thales Alenia Space’s financial performance.