Thales Alenia Space in Spain is the leading Spanish company in space communications and the natural partner in Spain for communication payloads and Earth observation optical instruments. With 37 years of experience in the design, development and commercialization of advanced space systems and equipment, the company has contributed to more than 650 satellites, space probes and space vehicles from satellite operators and space agencies around the World, devoted to Earth observation, telecommunication, navigation, science, exploration and orbital infrastructure missions. It has delivered 4,500 equipment accumulating 250,000,000 hours of flight operations.

Investing some 15% of sales in R&D, Thales Alenia Space in Spain offers a wide range of solutions spanning the design and integration of payloads and subsystems for telecommunications, data transmission and TT&C (tracking, telemetry and command), optical observation instruments, radiofrequency equipment, data processing and digital electronics, network management systems for the ground segment, telemetry transmitters for launchers and communication systems for spaceports. The company has 2500 m2 of clean room area (ISO 8 ) with the capacity to produce more than 250 equipment per year; an optical detection lab (ISO 5) for the integration of optical instruments; and a 600 m2 and 12.5m free-height satellite AIT facility for the integration and test of large space systems.

Thales Alenia Space in Spain has a solid background in designing, manufacturing and testing critical systems for space applications devised to survive the harsh thermal and radiation environment of outer space and planetary missions. This background comprises a deep knowledge of the effects of radiation on electronic components as well as RAMS assessments for data processing and robotic systems.