All Articles in Thales Alenia Space

Cannes, September 27, 2021 - Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %), has been selected by ESA in the frame of the Horizon 2020 program, for a new contract to design and develop a prototype of the next generation of ground station...

Cannes, September 23, 2021 – Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has carried out a demonstration flight designed to validate the emergency recovery system for the Stratobus stratospheric airship, as part of the European Commi...

SES-17 telecommunications satellite left Thales Alenia Space’s clean rooms of Cannes on September 22nd, and has just reached Europe’s spaceport, in French Guiana. The satellite is scheduled for launch on October 22nd, where it will be orbited by Arianespace jointly wit...

Luxembourg, September 1st, 2021 – Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33 %), is opening a Digital Center of Excellence in Luxembourg. With support from both the Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy and the Luxembourg Space Agency, th...

Cannes, 25 August 2021 - Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced today that it has signed its first contract with the EU Agency for Space Programme (EUSPA), to provide new capabilities to Europe’s EGNOS satellite naviga...

The construction of EUTELSAT KONNECT VHTS geostationary communications satellite is moving forward. The latest major milestone was the delivery of the payload from Thales Alenia Space’s Toulouse plant to our facility in Cannes. EUTELSAT KONNECT VHTS (very high throughp...

Rome 15 July, 2021 – Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), and Axiom Space of Houston, Texas (USA), have signed the final contract for the development of  two key pressurized elements of Axiom Space Station - the world’s first...

Cannes, July 12th, 2021 - Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), and Hellas Sat performed a successful 5G demonstration in Greece in the presence of the Ministry of Digital Governance, represented by Athanassios Staveris-Polykalas...

Madrid, 8 July 2021 - Thales Alenia Space, joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), inaugurated today its new satellite integration clean room in Tres Cantos (Madrid); with the presence of the Minister of Science and Innovation of Spain, Pedro Duque and o...

The 74th Cannes Film Festival is held from July 6 to 17, 2021. This is the perfect opportunity for Angénieux, a Thales Group brand, to once again celebrate its Hommage Pierre Angénieux, an annual award that recognizes the distinguished career of a director of photograp...