About Thales

Aerospace

In the air and on the ground, Thales is working constantly to make aviation safer, more efficient, and compatible with new environmental requirements. In space, we design satellites capable of defending and observing the planet and its climate.

Inventing tomorrow’s civil aviation

At a time when new environmental requirements are reshuffling the cards in aeronautics, Thales, a long-standing player in this field, is laying the foundations for more comfortable, more sustainable and safer civil aviation.

2/3

of aircraft take off and land using Thales equipment

1st

provider of Air Traffic Management solutions worldwide

10%

carbon footprint reduction provided by our intelligent cockpit

From the airport, we offer passengers an enhanced travel experience, thanks to integrated solutions that reduce wait times and simplify their journey, from check-in to boarding, and take them right to their seat where they can enjoy improved entertainment systems.

In the air, our avionics and flight management solutions, based on explainable and certifiable artificial intelligence tools, assist pilots in their decision-making. By streamlining flight plans, they also help reduce the carbon footprint of an entire industry.

Finally, our airspace security and optimisation platforms, incorporating new technologies such as drones and cybersecurity, enable the management and monitoring of air traffic as a whole.

Our Civil Aviation expertise

Space that is firmly focused on Earth

Putting advances in space technologies to work for life on our planet is the firm conviction of Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and the Italian industrial group Leonardo (33%).

Thales Alenia Space has notably designed and provided:

satellites in the IRIDIUM Next constellation

50%

of the pressurised volume of the International Space Station

Meteosat satellites

Combining forty years of experience and a unique diversity in terms of expertise and know-how, Thales Alenia Space's architects design, produce and deliver satellite systems to private companies, scientific institutions and States.

The main missions of these on-board tools deployed in orbit: to geolocate and connect objects and people all over the world; to provide tools for observing our planet, its climate and its natural cycles; and to optimize the use of resources on Earth and in the rest of the solar system, at a time when the question of their finiteness is more pressing than ever.

All this with the idea firmly in mind that space brings a new dimension to humanity, to build a better and more sustainable life on our planet.

Our expertise in Space