All Articles in Earth Observation

From April 20 to 22, we’re joining the world’s leaders for Earth Day 2021. The theme this year is “Restore Our Earth™”. Here at Thales Alenia Space, we’re keenly aware of the impact of global warming.

An exceptional year for Earth observation and space exploration

Cannes, December 29, 2020 – Following the launch of CSO-1 in December 2018, the CSO-2 military observation satellite was successfully launched today by Arianespace using a Soyuz rocket from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Featuring a very-...

Check-out how satellite-based technologies keep an eye on the skippers, and may even be called on to save lives!

Rome, December 15, 2020 - Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), and Telespazio, Joint Venture between Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%), forming the Space Alliance, have signed the contracts with the Italian Ministry of Defence and w...

Kourou, December 2, 2020 – The Earth observation satellite FalconEye was successfully launched last night from the European Spaceport (CSG) in Kourou, French Guiana by an Arianespace Soyuz rocket.

Rome, December 3rd, 2020 - Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %), announced today that it has signed a 482 Meuro contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to build the Copernicus Radar Observation System for Europe in L-band...

Cannes – November 13, 2020 - Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %), announced today that it has signed a 90 Meuro first tranche contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to design and build the 2 environmental monitoring sa...

Rome, November 13, 2020 - Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %) announced today that it has signed a 93 Meuro, first tranche of the 495 Meuro global contract, with the European Space Agency (ESA) to build the Copernicus Imaging Mi...

Cannes, November 13, 2020 – Thales Alenia Space, a Joint Venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %), signed today with the European Space Agency (ESA) 2 new contracts in the frame of the new high-priority Copernicus satellite missions planned to expand the curr...