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 the prime contractor on an amended 2010 contract with the European Space Agency and Eumetsat for six Meteosat Third Generation geostationary satellites.
Thales Alenia Space won one of six large commercial geostationary satellite orders booked in 2018 when Eutelsat Communications ordered the Konnect VHTS satellite in April 2018.
SES operates 16 first-generation O3b satellites from Thales Alenia Space in approximately 8,000-kilometer medium Earth orbit.
Telesat expected a selection between the Airbus and Maxar/Thales Alenia Space designs by spring 2019.
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and Thales Alenia Space each won one of the 2018 normal commercial GEO contracts.
Thales Alenia Space projects that between 10 and 15 geostationary satellites will be on the accessible market.
Thales Alenia Space estimates that world satellite operators will order around 10 commercial GEO satellites in the year referenced, up from seven ordered in 2017.
Iridium has 65 of 75 Thales Alenia Space-built Iridium Next satellites in orbit.
Telesat awarded two study contracts this summer to Airbus and to a team of Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space to conduct detailed analyses of how to build the constellation and associated ground systems.
Thales Alenia Space has formed a joint venture with Spaceflight Industries to develop small satellite production capabilities for the BlackSky constellation.
Kineis expects to complete a study contract with Thales Alenia Space next month that will lead to a contract to integrate the satellites.
Much of Globalstar’s $542,300,000 debt is owed to Thales Alenia Space for building Globalstar’s second-generation constellation of 24 spacecraft.
Eutelsat cancelled an investment in Viasat’s ViaSat-3 and is building a separate 500 Gbps satellite for Europe with Thales Alenia Space.
SSL is working with Thales Alenia Space to design Telesat’s low Earth orbit broadband satellite constellation.
Telesat awarded a similar constellation design contract on 2018-07-30 to a team of Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space.
Konnect VHTS, a Ka-band satellite being built by Thales Alenia Space, will concentrate 500 Gbps of capacity over Europe after launching in 2021 with a to-be-announced launch provider.
Telesat selected Thales Alenia Space and Maxar Technologies’ Space Systems Loral division on 2018-07-30 to collaborate on the design of its low Earth orbit broadband satellite constellation.
Thales Alenia Space holds a study contract with startup LeoSat for a proposed constellation of 84 broadband satellites.
The design collaboration positions Thales Alenia Space and Maxar Technologies as a team that could ultimately build Telesat’s 117-satellite system and accompanying ground segment if Telesat makes a manufacturing award in mid-2019.
LeoSat is designing its constellation with European manufacturer Thales Alenia Space, which is positioned to build the system once LeoSat signs a firm contract.