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 working closely with LeoSat on designing the satellites despite lacking a firm manufacturing contract.
LeoSat completed meaningful ground-based validation of onboard processors and inter-satellite links with Thales Alenia Space and Sky Perfect Jsat.
LeoSat abandoned plans to launch two demonstration satellites after completing ground-based tech validation with Thales Alenia Space and Sky Perfect Jsat.
Altec is a joint venture of the Italian Space Agency and Thales Alenia Space that signed a memorandum of understanding with Virgin Galactic in 2016 about performing flights from Italy.
BridgeSat is working with Tesat-Spacecom and Thales Alenia Space to create optical terminals that will work with the BridgeSat network.
Oxford Space Systems’ first antenna is scheduled to launch in 2020 on the U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory’s Wideband Ionospheric Sounder CubeSat Experiment that Thales Alenia Space is building.
Thales Alenia Space, UK will integrate and test the PLATO satellite platform.
OHB System will collaborate with an industrial core team including Thales Alenia Space (France and UK) and RUAG Space Switzerland to design and develop the PLATO satellite.
APT Satellite is working with Thales Alenia Space to correct the Apstar-6 power issue.
Iridium spent around $3,000,000,000 on the Iridium Next program to purchase satellites from Thales Alenia Space in Europe.
BTRC purchased a turnkey contract for Bangabandhu-1 from Thales Alenia Space in 2015 for $248,000,000 that included construction of ground infrastructure for satellite operations and provisioning of a launch vehicle.
Thales Alenia Space originally planned to launch Bangabandhu-1 on an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket but switched to SpaceX at Bangladesh’s request.
Thales Alenia Space’s winning bid listed Arianespace’s Ariane 5 as the default launcher for Bangabandhu-1.
Inmarsat has three satellites under construction: a Ka-band satellite dubbed GX-5 from Thales Alenia Space and two Inmarsat-6 satellites with L- and Ka-band capacity from Airbus Defence and Space.
Three weeks before 2018-04-27, Eutelsat forwent an investment in a planned 1-terabit Viasat satellite and instead purchased a 500-Gbps satellite from Thales Alenia Space focused exclusively on Europe.
Of the $360,000,000 debt raise, $60,000,000 was allocated to Thales Alenia Space and $87,000,000 was deposited to a debt reserve account that is part of the BPI France Export Assurance credit facility used to finance Iridium Next.
The new debt raise enabled Iridium to pay Thales Alenia Space $45,000,000 in deferred payments related to Iridium Next.
Deep Space Industries has a contract to provide 20 Comet thrusters to LeoStella, the joint venture of Spaceflight Industries and Thales Alenia Space, for the BlackSky imaging-satellite constellation, under a deal disclosed on 2018-04-03.
SWISSto12 will manufacture spacecraft waveguide products based on Thales Alenia Space designs using SWISSto12 proprietary additive manufacturing and surface treatment technologies.