European leader for satellite systems and at the forefront of orbital infrastructures, Thales Alenia Space is owned by Thales (67%) and Finmeccanica (33%) and forms with Telespazio the "Space Alliance".
 
Thales Alenia Space represents a worldwide standard for space development: from navigation to telecommunications, from meteorology to environmental monitoring, from defense to science and observation.

The company is deeply involved in environmental projects such as GMES, navigation programs such as EGNOS and Galileo, defense programs such as Syracuse, Sicral and COSMO-SkyMed and is also a major contributor to the International Space Station. Thales Alenia Space is also the clear European reference in space-based science programs with a leading role in GOCE, Herschel & Planck and ExoMars programs.

Thales Alenia Space has 11 industrial sites in 4 European countries (France, Italy, Spain and Belgium) with over 7,200 employees worldwide.