Thales Space Unit Wins a Satellite Order Briefing: PARIS
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Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture of the French defense contractor Thales and Finmeccanica of Italy, said Monday it had won a 229 million satellite order from the European Space Agency.
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An Ariane rocket has lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, carrying seven satellites, including at least one that is to gather intelligence for France&#39;s military.
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KOUROU, French Guiana -- Europe's Ariane 5 rocket on Friday successfully launched telecommunications satellites for a U.S.-Japanese joint venture and a startup company that will offer telephone and Internet service throughout Africa after a decade-long struggle for financing.
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Thales said it had won a contract from the British defence ministry for the maritime unmanned air vehicle (UAV), or drone, portion of the ministry's joint UAV experimentation programme.
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India&#39;s exclusive satellite for educational services -- Edusat -- was successfully placed into the Geostationary Orbit (GSO) on Monday.
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A European Ariane rocket launched a military surveillance satellite on Saturday, the third in a French-led drive for a European &quot;spy in the sky&quot; independent of the United States.
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PARIS, Nov 12  - The European Aeronautic, Defence and Space Company (EADS) will soon launch a bid for French defence electronics group Thales in a deal orchestrated by the French government, which owns just over 15 percent of EADS and 31 percent of
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A French satellite designed to hunt out  new planets has started work after a series of successful  tests, the European Space Agency said on Friday.
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The French defense group Thales expects to receive Australian government authorization later this month to acquire the 50 percent stake in ADI of Australia it does not already control, a press report said.
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A contract is signed that will lead to the building of the first four spacecraft in Europe's multi-billion-euro satellite-navigation network.
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A European rocket roared into space from a pad in French Guyana yesterday, placing into orbit a surveillance satellite expected to give France&#39;s military new abilities to spy worldwide.
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Russia successfully launches Europe's most powerful telecommunications satellite.
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WASHINGTON - Flight controllers at NASA&#39;s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., had to maneuver the Terra environmental spacecraft in late June to avoid orbital debris created by the Jan. 11 test of a  Chinese anti-satellite (A-Sat) weapon.
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A European satellite designed to improve weather forecasting has been given a new launch date.
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Text of report in English by Russian news agency Interfax-AVN website  Kiev, 18 June: The Ukrainian National Space Agency and the French National Space Exploration Centre (CNES) will sign an agreement on cooperation at the Paris Air Show 2007 in Le Bourget.
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SWE-DISH Satellite Systems has been awarded a frame contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to a total value of USD 20 million for mobile satellite communications equipment and support services.
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PARIS The first European spacecraft sent to the Moon has entered orbit there, the European Space Agency said on Tuesday. The SMART-1 spacecraft reached its closest point to the Moon so far, coming within 5,000