All Articles in Thales Alenia Space

From ANGELS to Kinéis including Omnispace, Thales Alenia Space continues to bolster its position in the IoT segment of the New Space market.

Toulouse, October 8, 2020 – Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced today it has installed a complete set of solar carports at its Toulouse facility, which are now online and generating electricity. This first sustainab...

Thales Alenia Space has just delivered a Ka-band transponder (KaT) to the European Space Agency (ESA) for integration in the 3GM, or Gravity & Geophysics of Jupiter and Galilean Moons radio package.

Turin, October 3rd, 2020 – The Cygnus spacecraft, dedicated to deliver supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), has been successfully launched by an Antares rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia, on its 14th operational mission. Cygnus comprises two main eleme...

While the ExoMars* program may seem like science fiction to some of you, it’s about to head for the planet Mars on its second mission. The entire spacecraft, comprising the carrier and descent modules, the landing platform and ESA’s new rover, is scheduled for a 2022 l...

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 Copernic...

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 Distr...

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 sat...

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. ...