Eleven years ago, on May 14, 2009, the Herschel and Planck spacecraft blasted into orbit from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana at 9:12 am local time (13:12 UTC). These two space telescopes were destined to unveil some of the Universe’s most closely guarded secr...
On April 28, 2006, the French-American satellite CALIPSO (Cloud Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations) was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Built for the French and American space agencies, CNES and NASA, the satellite provi...
Thales Alenia Space has contributed to the European launchers industry for more than 50 years, from Europa, through the Ariane family, and to the Soyuz and Vega launchers. In just a few years, the company has become the key supplier of numerous electronic equipment dev...
For over 40 years, our engineers have been providing scientists, governments, institutions and decision-makers with the extensive expertise and critical data needed for environmental monitoring, oceanography and meteorology. Precisely because we’re so concerned about c...
When BepiColombo lifted off on October 20, 2018 from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, we all knew that it wasn’t going to be a long goodbye.
From March 9 to 12 at Satellite 2020, the leading international conference and exhibition held every year in Washington, D.C., Thales Alenia Space will showcase its latest technologies for space-based telecommunications systems.
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