Five years ago, the Node 3 module and its attached Cupola viewing dome lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the Endeavour Space Shuttle. Both of the Space Station modules were built by Thales Alenia Space
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117: the number of satellites ordered from Thales Alenia Space for three telecom constellations in low or medium Earth orbit: Globalstar (24 second-generation satellites), O3b (12 satellites to date), Iridium NEXT (81 satellites).
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Meteosat-7, the seventh and last satellite in the first generation of Meteosat (European Meteorological Satellite organization) weather satellites, set the all-time record for service life by a Eumetsat satellite on January 24, 2015: 17 years, 4 months and 23 days.
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As the name indicates, SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) is designed to study ocean topography and surface water on the continents. SWOT is a follow-on to the Jason-1, 2 and 3 missions, with unprecedented technological innovations in altimetry.
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An acknowledged expert in very-high-resolution optical instruments, Thales Alenia Space is increasing its production capacity and introducing new products to meet the needs of a booming global market, as shown by its recent win of the United Arab Emirates' Falcon Eye c...
Following the excitement of the Curiosity rover, Thales Alenia Space is prime contractor on the ExoMars mission, which aims to study the Martian environment, atmosphere and soil. This mission will generate a mother lode of data, feeding researchers for many years to co...
The successful launch of the third cluster of O3b satellites on December 18, 2014 bolsters Thales Alenia Space's global leadership in the market for constellations of telecom satellites. It now has total orders for 117 of these satellites from Globalstar, O3b Networks ...