Thales Alenia Space, a leading company in the European space sector, has 35 years of experience in Spain. With 450 highly qualified professionals, its industrial site in Tres Cantos (Madrid) is a global reference in space communications, including the assembly, integration and test (AIT) of satellite telecommunication payloads and communication systems for all types of missions and orbits (LEO, MEO, GEO, lunar orbit, L2 Lagrange point and missions into deep space up to 500 million kilometers from Earth). It also specializes in Earth observation instruments, onboard data processing, and systems for the ground segment. The company has been involved in 660 satellites and provided 4,500 pieces of equipment and systems that have accumulated 250,000,000 hours of operation in orbit without failure