Thales Alenia Space

Thales Alenia Space designs, operates and delivers satellite-based systems for governments, institutions and companies. Its site states a vision of space as humankind's new horizon for a better, sustainable life on Earth, and describes the company as a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%).

Business areas

• Space to observe and protect: a partner in the European Copernicus programme for environmental monitoring, and in Europe's geostationary weather satellites, including the Meteosat Third Generation fleet
• Telecommunications: geostationary telecommunications satellites and telecommunications satellite constellations, with a multi-orbit approach. Recent news includes digital and secure payloads for 330 IRIS2 satellites and the NigComSat-2A contract
• Space to secure and defend: military and dual telecommunications systems, and high and very-high-resolution optical and radar Earth observation for surveillance
• Space to travel and navigate: six of the twelve Galileo Second Generation satellites with the ground mission segment, and a contribution to Kinéis, a constellation for the Internet of Things
• Space exploration: pressurised modules and lunar and Martian exploration work, including the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover

Recent programmes

In 2026 the company's news covered the SpainSat NG III satellite for Hisdesat and the Spanish Ministry of Defence, planned for launch in the third quarter of 2030, the PRISMA Second Generation mission, the CHIME hyperspectral mission, and the launch of the Sentinel-3C and FLEX Earth observation satellites.

Events

Thales Alenia Space is listed as a sponsor of the SmallSat Symposium 2027, the 16th EASN International Conference 2026 and the European Space Conference 2027, and as a partner of Space Meetings Veneto 2027. It also exhibits at AeroMart Toulouse 2026, Paris Air Show 2027 and SATELLITE 2027.

Contact

Thales Alenia Space is listed under Space, Manufacturers and is based in France.
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