Telespazio

Telespazio is a joint venture between Leonardo (67 percent) and Thales (33 percent) and one of the world's largest suppliers of satellite solutions and services. Founded in Italy in 1961 and based in Rome, it has about 3,500 employees across its subsidiaries and joint ventures and, together with Thales Alenia Space, forms the parent companies' Space Alliance. Its activities range from the design and development of space systems, launch services management and in-orbit satellite control to Earth observation, integrated satellite communications, navigation and localisation, and it applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to satellite big data for applications addressing challenges such as climate change.

Group and locations

• Telespazio France in France and French Guiana, Telespazio Benelux, Telespazio Germany with GAF Geospatial and Spaceopal (a joint venture with the German space agency DLR), Telespazio UK and Telespazio Iberica in Spain
• Telespazio Brasil and Telespazio Argentina, with sales offices in Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru
• e-GEOS, the geoinformation company 80 percent owned by Telespazio and 20 percent by the Italian Space Agency, now led by chief executive Cristina Sgubin
• The Fucino Space Centre in Italy, the Matera Space Centre in Basilicata and an office in Naples, plus a growing international ground station network that in 2026 added a new S/X-band antenna in the Azores

Recent programmes

Telespazio leads the European Space Agency's Moonlight programme for lunar communication and navigation services, and Telespazio Benelux will lead a consortium with EarthLab Luxembourg and Astro42 to deliver and operate the control centre for PROSPECT, ESA's mission to drill for water ice at the lunar south pole with a drill built by Leonardo. ispace, Leonardo and Telespazio have signed a memorandum of understanding on lunar exploration and interoperable lunar infrastructure, and e-GEOS has begun a collaboration with iQPS on SAR-based geospatial intelligence. The company runs the #T-TeC open innovation contest with Leonardo for students and young researchers, now in its seventh edition, publishes the Love Planet Earth calendar with e-GEOS, and holds management system certifications and an ethics and compliance programme.

Shows

Telespazio appears in the partner lists of Space Meetings Veneto 2027, where it is an industrial partner, and the European Space Conference 2027, where it is a partner of the 18th edition.

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