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Cannes June 6, 2023 - Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), will partner with Serco, the leader of the consortium awarded by the European Space Agency (ESA) to implement the DestinE Core Service Platform (DESP), a ke... ...

Italy’s new constellation of innovative and flexible Earth observation satellites to monitor Italy and Europe Rome, March 27, 2023 - Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has won contracts from the European Space Ag... ...

Space cooperation for climate science   Cannes, September 6th 2022 - After more than a year in assembly, integration and testing at Thales Alenia Space’s facility in Cannes, France, for the French and U.S. space agencies CNES and NASA, the SWOT satellite (... ...

Contract amendment signed for development and qualification of the IRIS radar altimeter   Toulouse, June 27, 2022. Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), signed an amendment to the CRISTAL contract with Airbus Defen... ...

Contract amendment signed for development and qualification of two payloads for the CO2M mission   Cannes, May 23, 2022 – Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed an amendment to its CO2M contract worth €169 ... ...

A revolutionary satellite designed to study Surface Water and Ocean Topography Vandenberg, California, December 16, 2022 – The SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite was successfully launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Spac... ...

The first imaging satellite in the MTG fleet will revolutionize European weather forecasting Kourou, December 13, 2022 – The MTG-I1 weather satellite, built by prime contractor Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%),... ...

Harwell, December 8, 2022 – Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has completed the assembly, integration and testing (AIT) of the MicroCarb satellite platform, and is now ready to begin the integration of the disper... ...

Rome, November 30, 2022 - Thales Alenia Space, joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a letter of intent to collaborate in supporting the creation of future disruptive space-based solutions in t... ...