Constellations

Second Generation COSMO-SkyMed Satellite Successfully Launched

01 Feb 2022

The enlarged 4 satellites final constellation will represent an extraordinary monitoring system guaranteeing greater performance and a significant increase in possible applications. Since 2008, the COSMO-SkyMed constellation has acquired approximately 2 million images, monitoring 7 billion square meters and generating vital data for our planet

Happy Birthday Iridium NEXT

14 Jan 2022

Five years ago, on January 14, 2017, under sunny Californian skies, the first ten Iridium NEXT satellites were sent aloft from Vandenberg Air Force Base (now called Vandenberg Space Force Base).

Start of the production of the Skylark constellation

26 Oct 2020

Cannes, Tukwila, October 27th, 2020 – Thales Alenia Space, the Joint Venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %), signed the first phase of a contract with NorthStar Earth and Space Inc., the Canadian space-based information services company, to start the development and production of the first three smallsat satellites that are part of the world’s first and most advanced commercial space-based environmental and near-space monitoring system.

Happy Birthday Iridium NEXT

14 Jan 2020

Three years ago, on January 14 2017, under the sunny skies of California, the first ten Iridium® NEXT satellites were successfully launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base launch complex.

Satellite constellation market booms thanks to growing demand for global coverage

23 Jul 2019

Thales Alenia Space is leader in a wave of Low and Medium Earth Orbit satellite constellations for both communications and earth observation, satisfying the need for global coverage and low latency required for Internet services, and made possible by economies of scale. Read on.

Thales Alenia Space @ Satellite 2019

06 May 2019

Operators, launch service companies, space agencies, government representatives… Everybody’s who’s anybody in the space telecommunications sector will be on hand at the Satellite 2019 international conference in Washington, D.C.

Happy #Earthday!

22 Apr 2019

The best place to understand the long-term trends affecting our planet is not on Earth, but high above it!

SES’s O3b MEO satellites successfully in orbit

04 Apr 2019

The tune of 20 high-performance satellites built by Thales Alenia Space for SES to deliver more communications services across the world

Iridium® NEXT constellation, built by Thales Alenia Space, now completely deployed in orbit

06 Feb 2019

All satellites operational, as project teams rise to a daunting technical challenge

4 latest O3b satellites arrive at launch base

07 Feb 2019

February 7, 2019 – The four latest O3b satellites arrived at the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana on February 2, after being shipped from Thales Alenia Space’s facility in Rome.