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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Airbus Defence and Space and the Thales Alenia Space–Space Systems Loral team completed systems requirements reviews for Telesat’s constellation on 2019-01-24.
Thales Alenia Space projects the FLEX satellite to launch in 2023 aboard a Vega C rocket.
A contract change on 2019-01-10 made Thales Alenia Space, rather than ESA, Leonardo’s customer for the FLORIS instrument.
Thales Alenia Space received a contract from the European Space Agency worth approximately 150,000,000 EUR ($172,400,000) on 2019-01-10 to build the Fluorescent Explorer satellite.
Airbus Defence and Space is building the CSO satellites using optical cameras from Thales Alenia Space.
Thales Alenia Space will leverage its experience with Cosmo-SkyMed, a four-satellite constellation funded by the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defence that launched between 2007 and 2010.
Thales Alenia Space will share information with Korean Aerospace Industries and Hanwha Systems on building remote sensing satellites with synthetic aperture radar payloads.
Thales Alenia Space signed separate contracts with Korean Aerospace Industries and Hanwha Systems Corp. on 2018-12-05 to develop four high-resolution radar satellites for South Korea’s Agency for Defence Development.
Telesat plans to downselect between the Maxar-Thales Alenia Space team and Airbus Defence and Space in the spring of 2019 and has not specified how many of the 300 satellites the winning company will build.
Maxar is on a team with Thales Alenia Space competing to build Telesat’s $3,000,000,000 low-Earth-orbit internet constellation.
LeoSat canceled plans to launch two prototype satellites next year and chose to perform technology validation on the ground with Thales Alenia Space and investor Sky Perfect Jsat of Japan.
Thales Alenia Space received 400,000,000 EUR in 2015 to build Sentinel-1C and Sentinel-1D for the European Commission’s Copernicus system.
Telesat awarded study contracts to Airbus Defence and Space and to a team of Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space to evaluate how to build its constellation.
Iridium plans to use Aireon payments to pay down its $1,800,000,000 in French export-credit loans for the 81 Iridium Next satellites ordered from Thales Alenia Space in 2010.
Maxar is competing as a team with Thales Alenia Space against Airbus to build an estimated $3,000,000,000 worth of small telecommunications satellites for Canadian operator Telesat.
The Thales Alenia Space and Maxar Technologies team is competing against Airbus for a 2019 Telesat contract estimated to be worth $3,000,000,000.
Thales Alenia Space received a 324,000,000 EUR contract from the European Space Agency on 2018-10-18 to develop new ground segment and security systems for the Galileo satellite navigation system.
Thales Alenia Space booked Inmarsat’s Global Xpress-5 geostationary telecom satellite in 2017 and Global Xpress-5 is scheduled to launch in 2019 on an Ariane 5 rocket.
Thales Alenia Space CEO Jean-Loïc Galle estimated that satellite operators will solicit bids for 10 to 15 geostationary communications satellites in 2019.
Thales Alenia Space is the preferred manufacturer for LeoSat’s planned constellation of 78 satellites.