Thales Alenia Space UK Ltd

17 October 2017 – Since legal incorporation in 2013 followed by the acquisition of the SEA space business in 2014, Thales Alenia Space in the UK is continuously growing in the Thales Alenia Space value chain.

11 October 2017 – Portia Bowman, an inspiring Thales Alenia Space systems engineer from Bristol, has received a Point of Life award from the UK Prime Minister’s Office in recognition of her volunteer work to create SpaceCareers.UK, a website ...

25 September 2017 – Thales Alenia Space has recently been awarded one of three competitive studies funded by the European Space Agency to lead the design definition of the Payload Module for SMILE (Solar Wind Magnetospheric Ionospheric Link E...

14 June 2017 – Following the launch of the first ten Iridium NEXT satellites in January 2017, their commissioning has proceeded very smoothly, as they passed all in-orbit tests with flying colors.

7 June 2017 – Thales Alenia Space is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the COSMO-SkyMed system, the global standard in spaceborne radar technology, following its launch from California in 2007.

6 June 2017 – Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with Inmarsat for the construction of its new communication Global Xpress (GX) satellite. The value of the contract will be approximately $130 million over the three years 2017 to 2019.

16 May 2017 – With the recent launches of the Telkom 3S, SGDC and KOREASAT-7 satellites, plus satellites in the Iridium Next constellation, Thales Alenia Space has now sent into orbit 79 metal parts made by additive manufacturing (3D printing...

2 May 2017 – Thales Alenia Space announced today that it will build a new facility in Hasselt, Belgium, dedicated to the automated manufacturing of photovoltaic assemblies (PVA), the electricity generating cells on satellite solar panels.