Alcatel Alenia Space

Alcatel Alenia Space was one of the world leaders in the construction of Artificial satellite. The company was held to 67% by Alcatel-Lucent and 33% by Finmeccanica.

Its operational head office was located in the Space center of Cannes Mandelieu.

The company was constituted by fusion of the credits in 2005.

  • of old the Alcatel Space (them same coming from Telspace then Alcatel Spaces, Space aerospatiale and Thomson Systèmes and Services (T4S)

  • and.

April 5th 2006, Alcatel agreed to sell its participation in Alcatel Alenia Space (and its 33% of Telespazio) with the group Thalès.

The European commission officially ratified the contribution with Thalès of the space activities of Alcatel. The new business Thalès Alenia Space was born on April 10th 2007. Its head office was installed in Cannes.

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