All you have to know about Thales Alenia Space's technologies presented during VivaTech 2019 event, held in Paris from May16th to May 18th

Just over a year ago, on May 11, 2018, the first Bangladeshi satellite, Bangabandhu Satellite-1, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral by a Falcon 9 rocket.

On May 14, 2009, just ten years ago today, an Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, with two spacecraft, Herschel and Planck.

The idea of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business often conjures up images of space-age workplaces overrun with robots. While the concept of AI seems new to many, it has been around for decades. The phrase “artificial intelligence” was coined in 1956 at a workshop held on the campus of Dartmouth College. Today, the supporting technologies have matured to the point where AI is now practical and effective, becoming one of the most important transformational technologies of the 21st century.

Turin – 8 May 2019  -  After a challenging engineering phase, the Analytical Laboratory Drawer (ALD), the core of the Rover of the ExoMars 2020 ESA Program, has been successfully integrated and tested by Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales 67% and Leonardo 33%, in its facility in Torino, Italy. Now it is ready to be integrated inside the Rover named Rosalind Franklin, that is provided by Airbus Defense and Space in UK.

Madrid, 6 May 2019 – A four co-primes consortium formed by Thales Alenia Space (JV between Thales 67 %, and Leonardo 33 %) in Spain and France, and Airbus in Spain and France, has been selected by Hisdesat Servicios Estratégicos S.A. (Spanish Governmental Satellite Operator), for two SPAINSAT NG satellites for governmental communications that will replace the existing SPAINSAT and Xtar-EUR satellites. Airbus will act as “lead partner” of the consortium.

CANNES, France and WESTMINSTER, Colo. – May 6, 2019 - Thales Alenia Space, a Joint Venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %) and Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR; TSX: MAXR), have completed an important milestone for the Telesat LEO constellation.

Operators, launch service companies, space agencies, government representatives… Everybody’s who’s anybody in the space telecommunications sector will be on hand at the Satellite 2019 international conference in Washington, D.C.

A new generation of space services will keep satellites in optimal condition and could remove debris from their paths. Read on for details.

Thales Alenia Space and the Polish company CloudFerro announce the signature of a contract with EUMETSAT, representing also ECMWF (The European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts), and Mercator Ocean International (called the Partners), for the provision of cloud computing and related services for the WEkEO platform.