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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As of 2019-05-02, Airbus Defence and Space and a Maxar Technologies–Thales Alenia Space team had nearly finalized designs and planned to submit proposals to Telesat in the coming months.
Airbus Defence and Space and a Maxar Technologies–Thales Alenia Space team are competing for a Telesat contract estimated at $3,000,000,000.
Thales Alenia Space plans to have a satellite servicing business by 2024 or 2025 and is currently in concept development.
Telesat expects to select a satellite manufacturer later 2019, with candidates being Airbus Defence and Space or a consortium of Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space.
Thales Alenia Space built the Ka-band O3b satellites and each satellite carries 20 gigabits per second of throughput.
Apstar-6 is a 14-year-old satellite built by Thales Alenia Space.
Thales Alenia Space purchased Ruag’s opto-electronics business line in 2016 and brought expertise in optical communications in space that could be used for LeoSat’s 108 satellites.
LeoSat is designing its constellation with Thales Alenia Space.
Thales Alenia Space expects to sign a contract in the upcoming months to build a communications satellite for Nepal.
Thales Alenia Space signed an agreement with the Nepal Telecommunications Authority on 2019-03-11.
Telesat is actively preparing a low Earth orbit broadband constellation and expects to choose between manufacturers Airbus Defence and Space and a Maxar Technologies–Thales Alenia Space team later in the year.
Global Xpress 5 is slated to launch late in the year on an Ariane 5 rocket provided by Arianespace with a Ka-band payload from Thales Alenia Space.
Maxar is partnered with Thales Alenia Space on a proposal to build Telesat’s broadband LEO constellation that leverages developments from the WorldView Legion effort.
Eutelsat is preparing for the launch of a dedicated Konnect satellite being built by Thales Alenia Space for a launch on an Ariane 5 rocket in the second half of 2019.
Thales Alenia Space and Spaceflight announced the LeoStella joint venture in March 2018 as part of a $150,000,000 Series C investment round for Spaceflight to support development of the BlackSky constellation.
Thales Alenia Space planned to provide systems engineering and digital payload expertise for a Telesat LEO effort.
A consortium led by Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space considers the Telesat LEO contract a $3,000,000,000 opportunity.
Eutelsat ordered the Konnect Very High Throughput Satellite (VHTS) from Thales Alenia Space to serve Europe.
Telesat will decide between Airbus Defence and Space and a Thales Alenia Space–Maxar Technologies team to manufacture its LEO constellation.
Telesat plans to select a satellite manufacturer later 2019 from either Airbus Defence and Space or a team of Thales Alenia Space and Space Systems Loral.