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Thales Alenia Space held its fifth #HelloSpace event in September and October 2021, organized by the Innovation Cluster.

Thales Alenia Space’s Turin plant recently took a major step forward in the construction of the primary structure of the Axiom commercial space station’s first module.

Turin, October 06, 2021 - Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced today that it has supported the final integration of critical systems on Orion’s European Service Module 2 (ESM 2) at the Airbus cleanroom in Bremen, Ger...

The ExoMars 2022 mission is designed to find traces of past or present life under the Martian soil. Leading this search is the Rosalind Franklin rover, which features the Analytical Laboratory Drawer. The ALD is a sophisticated micro-laboratory capable of processing on...

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...