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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. ...

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...

Thales will supply Pepephone, brand of MASMOVIL group, with SIM cards ecologically manufactured using materials extracted from recycled fridges.

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 with...

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 throughpu...

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,...

Portrait realized in the frame of the 2021 International Women in Engineering Day.

Rome, June 16, 2021 - Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), and Telespazio, the joint venture between Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%), have signed a contract with the Italian Ministry of Defense, represented by TELEDIFE / Secret...