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The EUTELSAT 10B communications satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space has been successfully launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Cape Canaveral, June 30, 2022 – Thales Alenia Space announced today that the SES-22 satellite was successfully launched into space onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX’s Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. ...

Luxembourg, 28 March 2022 – SES announced today it has ordered SES-26 a fully software-defined geostationary (GEO) satellite from Thales Alenia Space, joint venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %). SES-26 will maintain and expand the wide range of content deli...

Interview broadcast for International Women's Day 2022

Interview broadcast for International Women's Day 2022.

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, 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...

Cannes, October 24, 2021 – The Syracuse 4A and SES-17 communications satellites built by prime contractor Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), have been successfully launched by an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center, ...

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...