Thales Alenia Space
European aerospace company
Thales Alenia Space
Thales Alenia Space (TAS) is an aerospace joint venture between the French corporation Thales Group (67%) and Italian conglomerate Leonardo (33%). It forms one half of their Space Alliance alongside Telespazio. TAS is headquartered in Cannes, France. It designs, builds, and delivers space-based systems, including satellites, orbital infrastructure and ground segments, for telecommunications, earth observation, space exploration, meteorological and navigation purposes. It is a key contributor to Galileo, a European global satellite navigation system, being responsible for the ground segment in particular. In 2021, the company was also awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission to build 6 of the 12 new Galileo Second Generation satellites. The company is also a notable industrial contributor to the International Space Station (ISS), having produced numerous pressurized modules including the Cupola, the Harmony and Tranquility nodes, the Columbus laboratory...
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