Cannes Mandelieu Space Center

Infobox Company
company_name = Thales Alenia Space
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company_type = Private
foundation = 1929
location = Cannes
origins = Romano
key_people = Jean-Pierre Henry, Center Director
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industry = Aerospace
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num_employees = 1,900 (Nov. 2006)
parent = Thales Alenia Space
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homepage = http://www.thalesonline.com/space/index.html
footnotes = The Cannes Mandelieu Space Center is an industrial plant dedicated to spacecraft manufacturing, located on both towns of Cannes and Mandelieu in France. After a long history in aircraft manufacturer, starting in 1929, the center became more and more involved in the Aerospace activities after the Second World War, and satellites are now the plant's main produce.

After having been the Satellite Division of Aerospatiale, then Alcatel Space in 1998, then Alcatel Alenia Space in 2005, the center is now part, since April 10, 2007 [ [http://www.thalesonline.com/space/Press-Room/Press-Release-search-all/Press-Release-search-result/Press-Release-Article.html?link=6A4A1A14-4438-2715-1135-200342723910:central&locale=EN-gb&Title=Creation+of+the+New+Space+Alliance+between+Thales+and+Finmeccanica&dis=1 Thales Alenia Space Press release] ] of Thales Alenia Space and the headquarter of the company.

Main products

As prime contractor

* the series of Meteosat first and second generation
* the series of communication satellites Spacebus
* the Infrared Space Observatory
* the Huygens space probe, which landed on Titan
* the Proteus series of small low earth orbit satellites, including
** the COROT satellite
** Jason-1 & Jason-2
** the CALIPSO satellite
* the Planck satellite
* the Herschel Space Observatory

As the main subcontractor

* the cameras for the French military observation satellites Helios-1 and Helios-2
* the IASI [Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer, [http://smsc.cnes.fr/IASI/index.htm the CNES web site] ] interferometer embarked on-board Metop
* the MERIS camera embarked on-board the ENVISAT mission.

References

See also

* Thales Alenia Space
* Spacebus
* Meteosat
* Huygens probe

Interactive/Multimedia

* [http://www.thalesgroup.com/space/?locale=EN-gb Official Thales Alenia Space Website]