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Toulouse, 2020, September 21. Thales Alenia Space has today signed a close to €88 million contract with Airbus Defence and Space, prime contractor of the satellite, to develop the two IRIS flight models (Interferometric Radar Altimeter for Ice and Snow) of the Copernicu

Madrid, September 15, 2020 - Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has been selected by OHB, prime contractor, and the European Space Agency (ESA), to provide the Communications system as well as the Power Conditioning and Distri

Jakarta/Toulouse September 3, 2020 — Satelit Nusantara Tiga (SNT) and Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announce today the signature of a Preliminary Work Agreement to start the activities of the broadband telecommunication sate

If you’ve always wondered what those mysterious weather satellites actually look like, treat yourself to a trip to the Cité de l’espace to see an identical twin of Europe’s own MSG… you’ll be impressed!

Scientists have just revealed an amazing scientific discovery. Calling on the state-of-the-art technologies offered by the ALMA ground-based radiotelescope, astronomers have unveiled an extremely distant galaxy that could practically be mistaken for our own Milky Way. T

Cannes, 7 August, 2020 – Thales Alenia Space, a joint-venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced that it has signed a contract with SES to build SES-22 and SES-23, geostationary communications satellites. These two new satellites are designed to provide

The best things are always worth waiting and after a few months, the first images of the solar corona taken by Metis, the super coronagraph onboard the Solar Orbiter spacecraft launched in February to study the Sun, are finally released to the world!

While we often associate digital transformation with the incorporation of new technologies in the production process, we also tend to forget that this transition depends on the complete digitalization of ground and space segments alike.

Cannes, 2020, July 2. Thales Alenia Space, a Joint Venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %), has recently been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) in coordination and with the agreement of the European Commission, for major Copernicus missions. Coperni

Space Q&A with Steve Good, Vice President, Business Development North America