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 plans a new fully digital satellite product line to complement very-high-throughput satellites and deliver greater mission flexibility to operators, and the investment is expected to temporarily weigh on profitability in 2020 and 2021.
Thales Alenia Space will increase research and development spending and accepts that the spending will reduce earnings in 2020 and 2021.
Thales Alenia Space has invested 300,000,000 EUR in telecom research and development since 2013.
Thales Alenia Space will restructure over the next few months as part of a revamp of its telecom satellite manufacturing business and is projecting a 10% drop in sales for the year.
Thales Alenia Space partnered with Maxar Technologies in competition with Airbus Defence and Space to build a megaconstellation for Canadian operator Telesat, which is seeking 300 low Earth orbit satellites.
Thales Alenia Space is a frontrunner to build LeoSat’s constellation of 84 to 108 broadband satellites.
Thales Alenia Space has won three of 10 commercial satellite orders in 2019: one from Indonesian operator PSN for the broadband satellite Satria and two SpainSat NG satellites for Hisdesat to be co-built with Airbus Defence and Space.
Telesat has worked with Airbus Defence and Space and a consortium formed by Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space on designing the Telesat LEO constellation, with a downselect of a manufacturer expected by the end of the year.
Airbus Defence and Space and a consortium led by Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space view the Telesat LEO contract as a $3,000,000,000 opportunity.
Falcon Eye 1 was built by Airbus Defence and Space with an imaging payload from Thales Alenia Space.
A fifth-generation Global Xpress satellite built by Thales Alenia Space is scheduled to launch 2019 on an Ariane 5 rocket.
The French division of Thales Alenia Space built the Yamal-601 satellite.
Airbus is building six of the eight geostationary satellites ordered in 2019, including four built solely by Airbus (the Inmarsat-7s and Measat-3d) and two co-built with Thales Alenia Space (SpainSat NG 1 and 2).
Inmarsat has a fifth Global Xpress satellite, GX-5 from Thales Alenia Space, scheduled to launch later 2019 on an Ariane 5 rocket.
Bangabandhu-1 is a 3,500-kilogram communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space.
Airbus Defence and Space and the Maxar Technologies–Thales Alenia Space team are expected to submit bids to Telesat this summer for a manufacturing contract estimated at $3,000,000,000.
Eutelsat has a 75-gigabit-per-second Ka-band satellite named Konnect built by Thales Alenia Space that is slated to launch on an Ariane 5 rocket at the end of the year.
Airbus is competing against a Maxar Technologies–Thales Alenia Space team for an estimated $3,000,000,000 contract to build Telesat’s megaconstellation.
The contract for the two replacement satellites was awarded to a consortium of Airbus and Thales Alenia Space with the bulk of the work to be done by Airbus.
Airbus Defence and Space and the Maxar–Thales Alenia Space team expressed willingness to establish factories in Canada to build Telesat’s satellites.