PARIS (Reuters) - European aerospace groups Airbus and Thales are exploring a tie-up of some space activities as new competition disrupts the sector, two industry sources said.

Airbus SE has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for advice on an effort to forge a new European space and satellite company that can better compete with Elon Musk’s dominant SpaceX, according to ...

La Tribune and Reuters reported earlier this month that Airbus and France's Thales were exploring a tie-up of space activities as new competition disrupts the sector.

Leonardo, Airbus, Thales to assess feasibility of space alliance by end-July Cingolani said that by the end of next month the three groups would have assessed several aspects of a potential ...

ROME (Reuters) -Leonardo is in talks with France's Airbus and Thales over alliances in the space sector, the head of the Italian aerospace and defence group said on Tuesday, confirming for the ...

Aerospace giant Airbus Defence & Space CEO Guillaume Faury told analysts that he would prefer to merge all of its Space Division with rival satellite specialist Thales Alenia Space’s similar activity.

Europe’s two giant aerospace companies are looking to merge their satellite-related businesses. Airbus Defence & Space and Thales Alenia Space are in ‘nonbinding’ talks about merging their two ...

Airbus has held exploratory talks with Thales about merging some of their space activities.