Major Companies
|
Company |
Business |
Location |
Personnel in
Midi-Pyrenees |
 |
Alcatel Space |
Alcatel Space conceives, develops and manufactures space systems and satellites : in the field of telecommunications, navigation, earth observation, meteorology, sciences for civil and military applications.
But Alcatel Space also provides equipment for the largest companies and is present on more than 50% of the telecommunication satellites currently in orbit |
Toulouse |
2,200 |
 |
EADS Astrium |
Present for all the range of the space offer, Astrium profits from an exceptional expertise in all the applications : Earth science and observation, telecommunications and navigation, systems ground, military programs, launchers and orbital infrastructures |
Toulouse |
2,000 |
 |
Meteo France |
1st French climatological pole by the presence of Meteo France.
More than 1000 people on the region, between the exploitation service of meteorology, the national school of meteorology and the national research center of Meteo France.
In 2004, installation of the Direction of the Observation Systems |
Toulouse |
1,300 |
 |
Thales |
Electronic maps and subsets, space wiring |
Blagnac |
975 |
 |
Spot Image |
n°1 of space imagery in the world
Distribute the images of the satellites Spot in the world.
Since 1986, nearly 6 million images were acquired and indexed.
The arrival of SPOT 5 (resolution of 2,5 meters in Black&White and 5 meters in colors for the images in 60 60 km) must dope its sales in the next years |
Toulouse |
200 |
 |
CLS |
World operator of satellite systems Argos and Doris,
CLS provides from these systems the services of localization,precise orbitography, scientific data acquisition.
The study of the oceans from the space altimetry supplements its offer |
Ramonville Saint-Agne |
160 |
 |
Intespace |
One of the four centers of European tests in environment in the space sector approved by the ESA.
Assistance with the tests, studies and formation, engineering of centers and test facilities |
Toulouse |
160 |
 |
SCOT |
SCOT is a major actor in the fields of the geographical information and the observation of the Earth.
SCOT meets the needs for information growing of the actors of agriculture, the environment and the regional planning.
SCOT conceives, develops and exploits information systems integrating of the data of varied origin, such as the space imagery, air photography, the existing charts, the statistical ground measurements, statistical data... |
Toulouse |
43 |
 |
Geosys |
Geosys provides relevant information to the good moment thanks to a geographical information system dedicated and effective.
Geosys controls of the whole of the technical technicals (space teledetection, reading GPS, investigations, surveys, air photographs, etc) |
Toulouse |
35 |
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