Leonardo S.p.A. is an Italian multinational company specializing in aerospace, defense, and security, playing a prominent role in major international strategic programs. The company operates across the entire value chain of the space industry, from manufacturing satellites and infrastructure to producing high-tech equipment and sensors. Leonardo's activities include design and development of space systems, management of launch services, satellite control, earth observation services, and integrated communications, with key partnerships through the Space Alliance with Thales. They are a trusted technological partner of governments, defense agencies, and institutions, with products used on missions like Rosetta, Exomars, Galileo, and Copernicus, serving customers like NASA and ESA.
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Leonardo is investing in programs dedicated to lunar exploration.
Leonardo is strengthening its Space Division with Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space Italia.
Leonardo is investing in a proprietary Earth observation constellation.
Telespazio Ibérica, part of Leonardo Space, has been selected by the European Space Agency to lead the PiroSAR project.
Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between Thales and Leonardo.
Thales and Leonardo’s partnership strengthens their position in NATO multinational programs and the competitiveness of the European defense industry in high-interoperability CIS infrastructure.
Thales and Leonardo will build six Deployable Points of Presence for Special Operations Component Commands (DPOP SOCC) for NATO Special Operations Forces command and control modernization.
The DPOP SOCC program includes technologies from the United Kingdom and Germany in addition to Thales and Leonardo.
Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between France’s Thales and Italy’s Leonardo.
Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between Thales and Leonardo.
Thales Alenia Space and Leonardo form a joint venture that is 67% owned by Thales and 33% owned by Leonardo.
The Leonardo Vulcano family includes sub-caliber long-range rounds for naval and land artillery frameworks in 155 mm and 120 mm configurations.
Leonardo detailed the ongoing development and operational deployment profiles of its Vulcano precision-guided munition family at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris on June 29, 2026.
Leonardo has integrated an alternate operational mode for baseline Inertial Measuring Unit and GPS/GNSS-guided Vulcano rounds to counter heavy GNSS and GPS jamming.
Leonardo is doubling its industrial production footprint for the Vulcano munition family.
Leonardo’s Vulcano infrastructure is a joint engineering program with Germany’s Diehl Defence.
The Extended Range Artillery Projectile contract tasks General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, Leonardo, and Diehl Defence with adapting a derivative of the Vulcano 155 Guided Long Range projectile to meet U.S. Army next-generation artillery requirements.
Thales and Leonardo created the Space Alliance in 2005 through Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio.
Thales and Leonardo are the shareholders of Thales Alenia Space.
The formation of Leonardo’s expanded space partnership is expected to run from now until much of 2027.