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Today is World Oceans Day, the United Nations day to celebrate the role of oceans in our daily lives and inspire actions to restore and protect the oceans and sustainably use marine resources.

Thales Alenia Space leads from Spain the consortium of a revolutionary project, PROMISE (PROgrammable MIxed Signal Electronics), that will provide technological independency to Europe in future space missions and guarantee its competitiveness in the field. PROMISE, whi...

Cannes, 13 May, 2020 – Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has appointed Christophe Valorge as Chief Technical Officer, effective on May 1st, 2020. He succeeds to Patrick Mauté who will be retiring. ...

Eleven years ago, on May 14, 2009, the Herschel and Planck spacecraft blasted into orbit from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana at 9:12 am local time (13:12 UTC). These two space telescopes were destined to unveil some of the Universe’s most closely guarded secr...

Two years ago to the day, Bangladesh’s first satellite, Bangabandhu Satellite-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a Falcon 9.

On-board an industrial consortium developing the NASA Human Landing system

On April 28, 2006, the French-American satellite CALIPSO (Cloud Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations) was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Built for the French and American space agencies, CNES and NASA, the satellite provi...

Madrid, April 27, 2020 - Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced today the signature of a contract with AVIO S.p.A., industrial prime contractor of VEGA launch vehicle, in the frame of LEAP program of the European Space ...

Built by Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor for the European Space Agency (ESA), Sentinel-1B and -3B were both orbited on April 25, albeit two years apart.

For over 40 years, our engineers have been providing scientists, governments, institutions and decision-makers with the extensive expertise and critical data needed for environmental monitoring, oceanography and meteorology. Precisely because we’re so concerned about c...