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European leader for satellite systems and at the forefront of orbital infrastructures, Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Finmeccanica (33%) and forms with Telespazio a Space Alliance. Thales Alenia Space is a worldwide reference in telecoms, radar and optical Earth observation, defense and security, navigation and science. Thales Alenia Space has 11 industrial sites in 4 European countries (France, Italy, Spain and Belgium) with over 7,200 employees worldwide.

Thales Alenia Space is at the heart of the most high-performance satellite technologies in both civil and defense sectors.

Today, Thales Alenia Space is the leading European supplier of satellite-based solutions for Defense and Security, with strong positions in both space and ground segments. In addition, the company is the European benchmark supplier of facility operational services for the European Space Agency (ESA), the French space agency CNES, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) as well as for the French, Italian and German Ministries of Defense, the Defense procurement agency DGA and other major customers. Thales Alenia Space is also active in the civil-military satellite export market, through Koreasat 5 in South Korea, Star One in Brazil and Yahsat in United Arab Emirates.

Thales Alenia Space strengthens its European leadership in space systems with the provision of 7 telecommunication and observation satellites in 2007, and entering new markets (United Arab Emirates, Norway and Indonesia) in telecom domain. The company has also signed a strategic industrial cooperation agreement with the Russian company NPO-PM, enabling both companies to reinforce their leading position in Russia. Last year, Thales Alenia Space participated in 13 missions using all types of launchers.