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Thales

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commercialFounded 2000
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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.

Mentioned as: ThalesOrg RelationshipDec 5, 2018Thales Alenia Space to build four radar satellites for South Korea

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.

Mentioned as: ThalesNarrative GeneralDec 5, 2018Thales Alenia Space to build four radar satellites for South Korea

Maxar is on a team with Thales Alenia Space competing to build Telesat’s $3,000,000,000 low-Earth-orbit internet constellation.

Mentioned as: ThalesOrg RelationshipDec 3, 2018Maxar schedules spending break after WorldView Legion completion

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.

Mentioned as: ThalesOrg RelationshipDec 3, 2018Maxar schedules spending break after WorldView Legion completion

Thales Alenia Space received 400,000,000 EUR in 2015 to build Sentinel-1C and Sentinel-1D for the European Commission’s Copernicus system.

Mentioned as: ThalesOrg RelationshipNov 15, 2018Commercial EO innovation challenges snail-pace government timescales

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.

Mentioned as: ThalesOrg RelationshipNov 3, 2018Iridium expects Aireon to pay off $200M debt by end of 2021

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.

Mentioned as: ThalesOrg RelationshipOct 31, 2018Maxar trying to sell GEO business as defective components compound troubles

Thales Alenia Space CEO Jean-Loïc Galle estimated that satellite operators will solicit bids for 10 to 15 geostationary communications satellites in 2019.

Mentioned as: ThalesOrg RelationshipOct 22, 2018Thales Group reports boost in space revenue

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.

Mentioned as: ThalesOrg RelationshipOct 22, 2018Thales Group reports boost in space revenue

Thales Group reported 3,040,000,000 EUR in aerospace revenue for the nine months ending 2018-09-30, roughly flat with the same period the previous year.

Mentioned as: ThalesNarrative GeneralOct 22, 2018Thales Group reports boost in space revenue

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.

Mentioned as: ThalesOrg RelationshipOct 22, 2018Thales Group reports boost in space revenue

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.

Mentioned as: ThalesOrg RelationshipOct 22, 2018Thales Group reports boost in space revenue

Thales InFlyt plans to use capacity on SES-17 in 2021 for Ka-band service over North America.

Mentioned as: ThalesOrg RelationshipSep 26, 2018FIRST UP Satcom | Thales InFlyt eyes global Ka-band network • Iridium to connect Ocean Cleanup effort • SES opens Isle of Man teleport

Thales InFlyt plans to use Inmarsat’s Global Xpress for Ka-band service outside North America.

Mentioned as: Thales InFlytTechnical ProductSep 26, 2018FIRST UP Satcom | Thales InFlyt eyes global Ka-band network • Iridium to connect Ocean Cleanup effort • SES opens Isle of Man teleport

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and Thales Alenia Space each won one of the 2018 normal commercial GEO contracts.

Mentioned as: ThalesTechnical ProductSep 14, 2018Airbus forecasts 15 to 18 commercial GEO orders as new annual norm

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.

Mentioned as: ThalesOrg RelationshipSep 14, 2018Airbus forecasts 15 to 18 commercial GEO orders as new annual norm

Iridium has 65 of 75 Thales Alenia Space-built Iridium Next satellites in orbit.

Mentioned as: ThalesNarrative GeneralSep 12, 2018Iridium to finish deorbiting legacy constellation early next year

Thales Alenia Space has formed a joint venture with Spaceflight Industries to develop small satellite production capabilities for the BlackSky constellation.

Mentioned as: ThalesNarrative GeneralSep 10, 2018Bankers see a growing industry shift to smallsats

Much of Globalstar’s $542,300,000 debt is owed to Thales Alenia Space for building Globalstar’s second-generation constellation of 24 spacecraft.

Mentioned as: ThalesOrg RelationshipSep 4, 2018Jay Monroe drops Globalstar CEO position to focus on spectrum

Eutelsat cancelled an investment in Viasat’s ViaSat-3 and is building a separate 500 Gbps satellite for Europe with Thales Alenia Space.

Mentioned as: ThalesOrg RelationshipAug 13, 2018Viasat’s Dankberg explains medium Earth orbit thinking, global expansion strategy
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