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Thales Alenia Space is prime contractor for instruments on CSO and Europe’s other main satellite systems for defense and security

Two contracts signed with South Korea, for “Dancing Satellites” featuring high performance and shorter revisit times

Crucial, policy-influencing facts about climate change are coming in from the new generation of weather satellites. Here's what satellite radar and optics are seeing. Read on.

Satellites are one of the most vital components in better understanding our planet. And it’s no accident that the latest edition of the book Climate Change & Satellites, published by Sud[s] Concepts for Thales Alenia Space, is entitled “Acting Together”. ...

Madrid, June 19, 2018 – Thales Alenia Space in Spain partners with OHB System AG in the Land Surface Temperature Monitoring (LSTM) mission, in the frame of the expansion of the Copernicus Program led by the European Space Agency (ESA) on behalf of the European Commissi...

Thales Alenia Space calls on small and medium-size businesses to help build this advanced oceanography satellite, the first to carry out a controlled reentry into the atmosphere

Set to join its identical twin, Thales' Sentinel 3B, the satellite dubbed "reference for the industry" was successfully launched on April 25th from Plestesk cosmodrome.

The European Space Agency’s latest Earth observation satellite, Sentinel-3B, will be orbited by a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on April 25. Sentinel-3B has a two-pronged maritime and terrestrial mission, spanning oceanography, land hydrology and vegetat...

The Sentinel-3B satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space for the European Space Agency (ESA), was successfully orbited today by a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

March 2018 was definitely “constellation month” at Thales Alenia Space!