Thales Alenia Space, a privately owned company headquartered in France, was founded in 2007 and employs approximately 6,980 individuals. The company specializes in aviation and aerospace component manufacturing, functioning as a joint venture between the French technology corporation Thales Group and Italian defense conglomerate Leonardo. It delivers cost-effective solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth observation, environmental management, exploration, science, and orbital infrastructures.
On September 16, 2026, Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with ArianeGroup to begin production of the range safeguard system for the new Ariane 6 launch vehicle. Earlier that day, Thales Alenia Space and Space Cargo Unlimited unveiled details of their alliance, signing the first-phase contract for the conception and production of 'REV1,' which they describe as the first floating space factory. Also on September 16, 2026, the company announced its cooperation with the European Space Agency Φ-lab to jointly develop disruptive Earth Observation space solutions based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). This followed the European Commission's selection of Thales Alenia Space to lead the ASCEND (Advanced Space Cloud for European Net zero emission and Data sovereignty) feasibility study for data centers in orbit. Additionally, Eutelsat selected Thales Alenia Space to build a new flexible software-defined satellite designed to expand Eutelsat’s in-orbit assets, providing more than 100 Gbps of incremental capacity over the Americas to support the connectivity market.
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Thales Alenia Space offers products in the connectivity and cloud industry. Thales Alenia Space's product portfolio comprises of enterprise connectivity services.
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Thales Alenia Space's customers primarily consist of enterprise connectivity services, media and TV services and government Administration companies. Examples of Thales Alenia Space's customers include Sky Perfect JSAT Group, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology of the Republic of Indonesia and Intelsat. Thales Alenia Space has partners like SES Satellites.
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