Tag:Thales Alenia Space

Italy's industrial space giants — Thales Alenia Space, Telespazio, Leonardo — and how Turin became the factory building Europe's future in orbit.

How Italy became the third nation in space, built half the ISS's habitable volume, and gave Europe its own rocket — a deep dive into 60 years of Italian spaceflight.

From Chretien's 1982 Soyuz flight to Pesquet commanding the ISS, France built Europe's astronaut corps, satellite giants, and only independent military space.