All Articles in Thales Alenia Space

Cannes, January 17, 2020 – The all-electric EUTELSAT KONNECT telecommunications satellite has been successfully launched by Arianespace from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana (South America). EUTELSAT KONNECT was built by Thales Alenia Space,

Three years ago, on January 14 2017, under the sunny skies of California, the first ten Iridium® NEXT satellites were successfully launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base launch complex.

Thales Alenia Space and partners are pleased to announce the official launch of VERTIGO (Very High Throughput Satellite-Ground Optical link), a 3-year project conducted through the Horizon2020 Research & Innovation program for the European Commission.

Cannes, January 8, 2020 – Thales Alenia Space (the joint venture between Thales, 67% and Leonardo, 33%) and Thales have signed a contract with The French defense procurement agency DGA (Direction générale de l’armement) to carry out a concept study concerning intelligen

COSMO SkyMed Second Generation (CSG-1), ArgosNEO on board ANGELS, CHEOPS and contribution to Soyuz launcher

Cannes, December 11, 2019 – The I3DS project coordinated by Thales Alenia Space within the scope of the European Commission’s vast Horizon 2020 research program, won an Etoiles de l’Europe (“Stars of Europe”) award at the 7th annual ceremony, held yesterday in Paris, wi

Cannes, December 5, 2019 – Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced today that it has signed a new contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of the European Commission, to upgrade Europe’s EGNOS satellite n

Cannes, December 4, 2019 – Thales Alenia Space, a Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced today that it has signed a contract with the Egyptian operator Nilesat to build the Nilesat-301 geostationary communications satellite, winning the contrac

Cannes, December 2, 2019 – Following the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Ministerial Council meeting, Space19+, in Seville, Spain, Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), welcomed the announcements of the most ambitious plan for the

Cannes, November 27, 2019 – The Inmarsat GX5 geostationary telecommunications satellite has been successfully orbited by Arianespace atop an Ariane 5 launcher from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Built for Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile s