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Thales Alenia Space

FR
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Cannes, France
www.thalesaleniaspace.com
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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: Thales Alenia SpaceNarrative GeneralDec 5, 2018Thales Alenia Space to build four radar satellites for South Korea

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: Thales Alenia SpaceOrg RelationshipDec 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: Thales Alenia SpaceOrg 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: Thales Alenia SpaceOrg RelationshipDec 3, 2018Maxar schedules spending break after WorldView Legion completion

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.

Mentioned as: Thales Alenia SpaceOrg RelationshipNov 15, 2018FCC approves SpaceX, Telesat, LeoSat and Kepler internet constellations

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: Thales Alenia SpaceOrg RelationshipNov 15, 2018Commercial EO innovation challenges snail-pace government timescales

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.

Mentioned as: Thales Alenia SpaceTechnical ProductNov 15, 2018FCC approves SpaceX, Telesat, LeoSat and Kepler internet constellations

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: Thales Alenia SpaceOrg 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: Thales Alenia SpaceOrg RelationshipOct 31, 2018Maxar trying to sell GEO business as defective components compound troubles

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.

Mentioned as: Thales Alenia SpaceTechnical ProductOct 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: Thales Alenia SpaceOrg RelationshipOct 22, 2018Thales Group reports boost in space revenue

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: Thales Alenia SpaceOrg 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: Thales Alenia SpaceOrg RelationshipOct 22, 2018Thales Group reports boost in space revenue

Thales Alenia Space is the preferred manufacturer for LeoSat’s planned constellation of 78 satellites.

Mentioned as: Thales Alenia SpaceTechnical ProductOct 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: Thales Alenia SpaceOrg RelationshipOct 22, 2018Thales Group reports boost in space revenue

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.

Mentioned as: Thales Alenia SpaceTechnical ProductOct 22, 2018Thales Group reports boost in space revenue

SES operates 16 first-generation O3b satellites from Thales Alenia Space in approximately 8,000-kilometer medium Earth orbit.

Mentioned as: Thales Alenia SpaceOrg RelationshipOct 11, 2018SES’s future GEO satellites will be more like O3b, CEO says

Telesat expected a selection between the Airbus and Maxar/Thales Alenia Space designs by spring 2019.

Mentioned as: Thales Alenia SpaceTechnical ProductSep 26, 2018World Satellite Business Week: May the satellite industry live in interesting times

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: Thales Alenia SpaceOrg RelationshipSep 14, 2018Airbus forecasts 15 to 18 commercial GEO orders as new annual norm

Thales Alenia Space projects that between 10 and 15 geostationary satellites will be on the accessible market.

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