Joint venture forming the Space Alliance; Thales Alenia Space manufactures satellites and spacecraft for telecom, EO, navigation, exploration and orbital infrastructure; Telespazio provides satellite services and operations.
Joint venture forming the Space Alliance; Thales Alenia Space manufactures satellites and spacecraft for telecom, EO, navigation, exploration and orbital infrastructure; Telespazio provides satellite services and operations.
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Thales Alenia Space and partners agreed to manufacture and deliver a high-revisit smallsat constellation for BlackSky; TAS/Telespazio/Spaceflight partnership will supply satellites and supporting systems for BlackSky’s geospatial platform (announcement of partnership to accelerate BlackSky constellation).
Thales Alenia Space signed multiple contracts to shape the consortium carrying out the Lunar Descent Element (LDE) for ESA’s Argonaut mission; TAS is supplying the lunar descent element design and hardware as prime/lead for the consortium.
Thales Alenia Space and partners will supply satellites and supporting systems to Spaceflight Industries / BlackSky for their geospatial intelligence constellation; Spaceflight is the mission user/customer for the manufactured satellites and services.
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Thales Alenia Space / Telespazio program partners
Telespazio— strategic partner / Space Alliance · program partner / service customer2 connectionsTell me more
Telespazio is the Space Alliance partner with Thales Alenia Space (complementary capabilities: TAS provides satellite systems; Telespazio provides services and operations). Telespazio supplies ground segment operations, services and distribution capabilities that enable the integrated Space Alliance offering.
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Thales Alenia Space supplies satellites, spacecraft systems and integrated products to Telespazio as part of the Space Alliance; the two firms co-develop and cross-distribute products and services (TAS supplies hardware/systems; Telespazio supplies services and distribution).
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Leonardo— strategic partner / Space Alliance shareholderTell me more
Leonardo is a principal partner in the Space Alliance (joint industrial cooperation with Thales) and provides complementary capabilities and program partnerships that enable Thales Alenia Space’s integrated offerings in satellite systems and services.
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Airbus— strategic partner / MoU counterparty · strategic partner / MoU counterpart2 connectionsTell me more
Airbus signed a memorandum of understanding with Leonardo and Thales (related European space cooperation and consolidation initiatives), a partnership-level agreement that enables collaborative R&D and industrial coordination affecting Thales Alenia Space’s program planning and supply chains.
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Thales (and by extension Thales Alenia Space) signed a memorandum of understanding with Airbus and Leonardo to accelerate European leadership in space; TAS will be a supplier and participant in programs and joint R&D under the MoU framework.
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BlackSky— program partner / customer enabler (constellation partner)Tell me more
BlackSky (via Spaceflight Industries / partnership) is the geospatial platform partner for which Thales Alenia Space and LeoStella were engaged to manufacture smallsats and provide systems integration, enabling TAS to scale smallsat production and in-orbit services for BlackSky’s high-revisit constellation.
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LeoStella— manufacturing partner / supplier recipientTell me more
Through the JV arrangement, Thales Alenia Space will provide spacecraft design, engineering and integration work to support LeoStella manufacture of the BlackSky smallsat series; TAS supplies satellite systems expertise and will receive manufactured units and integration services via the JV relationship.
Spaceflight Industries partnered with Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio to build the BlackSky geospatial platform and constellation; in conjunction with the investment the parties created a Seattle-based industrial joint venture (LeoStella) to manufacture small satellites at scale, enabling Thales Alenia Space’s smallsat manufacturing and constellation delivery capabilities (announced partnership / JV formation).
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LeoStella— acquired capability / joint ventureTell me more
Thales Alenia Space and Spaceflight Industries created LeoStella LLC (50/50) to provide a Seattle-based industrial capability to manufacture cost-effective, high-performance small satellites at scale that enables production for BlackSky and other LEO constellations (JV manufacturing capability enabling TAS/Telespazio offerings).
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