Thales Alenia Space

The U.S. will contribute the launch service, aerobraking engines and radioisotope heater units.

ESA has awarded Thales Alenia Space a contract for the development of the Mars Entry, Descent and Landing Module of the ExoMars 2028 mission.

Officially forming on March 12, Leonardo's space business becomes one of five business areas representing each of the warfighting domains: land, air, sea, cyber and space.

D-Orbit, a space tug startup, has raised a €100 million ($109.7 million) Series C round.

Over 50 years, GPS has evolved and inspired the development of similar systems by other nations.

NASA is working with at least six companies interested in operating orbital outposts.

LeoStella and Hera Systems have formed a strategic manufacturing partnership and put forward a proposal for the U.S. Space Development Agency.

Airbus, Lockheed Martin and Thales Alenia Space can take part in the first phase of the tender for the UK’s Skynet Enduring Capability Wideband satcoms program.

Ordinary matter accounts for just 5% of the universe. The Euclid mission will focus on everything else.

Arianespace’s workhorse Ariane 5 rocket closed out 27 years of operations on July 5 with its 117th mission.

The final Ariane 5 rocket was rolled out to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) launch site in French Guiana on July 3.

The probe will conduct a six-year survey to answer questions about dark matter, dark energy and what the universe is made of.

The mission, which is intended to deliver two European government communications satellites into orbit, had been targeted to launch on June 16.

The spacecraft will be designed to perform a wide range of robotic operations on existing satellites.

Europe’s space and telecommunication heavyweights have formed a consortium to bid for the European Union’s IRIS² satellite constellation.

Thales Alenia Space has matured technologies and production processes for its Spacebus Neo all-electric telecommunications satellite platform.

Thales Alenia Space has won contracts to supply synthetic aperture radar and optical satellites for IRIDE, the hybrid Italian Earth observation constellation.

Noting widespread technology progress toward higher-airspace operations, the French Air and Space Force kicks off a doctrine study.

The European Commission has chosen Thales Alenia Space to lead the next phase of the European Robotic Orbital Support Services program, slated to culminate with an in-orbit demonstration in 2026 and potentially follow on with commercial missions.

Artificial intelligence programs are well suited for dealing with the deluge of data generated by space systems, according to the companies.

Thales and Leonardo, plans to study potential military uses of the Stratobus as part of a contract issued by the French defense materiel agency, DGA, and announced on Jan. 8.