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The impressive James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope of this kind ever made, was successfully launched by Arianespace on December 25, 2021. A joint program between NASA and its counterparts in Europe (ESA) and Canada (CSA), Webb will observe the beginn...

Five years ago, on January 14, 2017, under sunny Californian skies, the first ten Iridium NEXT satellites were sent aloft from Vandenberg Air Force Base (now called Vandenberg Space Force Base).

Cannes, January 12, 2022 – Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced that it has signed a contract with Intelsat to deliver two Space Inspire software defined satellites, Intelsat 41 (IS-41) and Intelsat 44 (IS-44). ...

Cannes, January 4, 2022 – Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), logged a number of successes in 2021, including key contracts, major industrial milestones and launches, a series of innovations and new capital investments. ...

ANGELS recently celebrated its second anniversary in orbit and is fully operational. It has already exceeded its initial design life and is still going strong.

We’re going to focus on a successful artificial intelligence (AI) technology demonstration conducted on OPS-SAT.

Cannes, December 2, 2021 – At the 9th annual awards ceremony for Etoiles de l’Europe* (“Stars of Europe”), held today in Paris and attended by French Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation Frédérique Vidal, the EROSS project, coordinated by Thales Alenia ...

Cannes, November 18, 2021 – Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced that it has signed a contract with SES to deliver 2 Ku-band geostationary satellites, ASTRA 1P and ASTRA 1Q to serve SES’s major European broadcasters’ co...

Interview of Stéphanie Behar-Lafenêtre, coordinator of the EROSS+ (European Robotic Orbital Support Services) H2020 project.

Rome, October 27th, 2021 - Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to study fundamental techniques, models and algorithms to facilitate a future Lunar Radio Navigation System (LNR...