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Thales Alenia Space

Active Broadband & DTC Joint Venture HQ: Cannes, France Founded 2007

Major European sat manufacturer. Galileo navigation, IRIS2 sovereign broadband, ExoMars.

54.3
ARI Composite
Moderate Risk
#5 of 9
Peer Rank
Manufacturing cohort
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Total Launches
No flights tracked
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Estimated valuation
Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

54.3
ARI composite · Moderate Risk
Peer rank#5 of 9
Peer groupManufacturing
Data coverage53%
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RECENT DEALS & CONTRACTS

Date Type Amount Counterparty Significance
Aug 01, 2022 Contract Award $44.0M General Services Administration / Federal Acquisition Service, LINQUEST CORPORATION Medium

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SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorBroadband & DTC
Rank within sector#5 of 9
Tracked peers9
Secondary sectors
EO & GEOINT Orbital Data Centers

RECENT COVERAGE

Date Source Headline
Dec 12, 2023 USAspending.gov Administration Awards $12.2M to SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION for DEVCOM CBC BPA CALL 03 TAS CBRNE SUPPORT
Aug 01, 2022 USAspending.gov Administration Awards $43.7M to LINQUEST CORPORATION for DIGITAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR AFRL DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TAS...
Aug 01, 2022 USAspending.gov Administration Awards $44.0M to LINQUEST CORPORATION for DIGITAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR AFRL DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TAS...
Apr 17, 2006 USAspending.gov Administration Awards $4.4B to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION for FIRST DDT AND E, ARES I-X, AND FLIGHT TESTS. FIRST STAGE WILL BE A FIVE SEGMENT...
Apr 21, 2004 USAspending.gov Administration Awards $383.4M to SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE for TAS::80 0120::TAS AS THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI) INSTITUTION FOR THE MAGNETO...

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameThales Alenia Space
OwnershipJoint Venture
HeadquartersCannes, France
CountryFR
Founded2007
CEOHerve Derrey
ParentThales / Leonardo (JV)
AliasesThales Alenia Space, TAS
Key programsGalileo, IRIS2, ExoMars, Space Rider
Gov customersESA, EU, CNES
IPO statusN/A — JV Thales (67%) / Leonardo (33%)

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Thales Alenia Space corporate homepage (Thales/Leonardo JV) — confirms telecom / navigation / EO / exploration product lines.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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