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Leonardo, trading as LDO.MI, holds a partnership stake in Thales Alenia Space and supplies electro-optics, space electronics, and satellite communication systems.
LDO.MIACTIVELeonardo is a major Italian aerospace, defense, and security company with significant space capabilities through its partnership in Thales Alenia Space. The company excels in electro-optics, space electronics, satellite communications, and Earth observation systems.
Tracing its origins to 1948 as Finmeccanica, Leonardo is one of the world's largest defense and aerospace companies. In the space domain, Leonardo holds a 33% stake in Thales Alenia Space (with Thales holding 67%), one of Europe's premier satellite manufacturers. Leonardo's own space division produces advanced electro-optical instruments, star trackers, solar arrays, and space-qualified electronics. The company's products fly on major ESA missions including COSMO-SkyMed radar satellites and the ExoMars rover. Leonardo is also a key contributor to the International Space Station through its construction of pressurized modules.
Not ranked: No measurable space activity in our data (space-coded federal awards or subcontracts, space revenue in the company’s SEC annual report, an orbital launch, or a space-segment profile: for a defense company or a diversified aerospace group, a subsector naming space work, and for a diversified group a space line cited at $100M or more): scored, but not ranked as a space company.
4 of 6 inputs measured · Insufficient data · 77% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Reported revenue
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
A pillar score averages the company’s percentiles among the tracked companies with a value: relative standing, not a grade. Inputs measured 2026-10-10 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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Compiled Oct 10, 2026 from 1 public record. Every figure links the record it comes from. Facts only: nothing here is a rating, a forecast or a recommendation.
Open roles
17 open roles
90 days ago: before our daily count began (Aug 13, 2026)
Roles on the company's own jobs board, read by our daily sync. Listings posted or paid for on SpaceNexus are not counted. Earlier daily counts include every listed role.
Source: Company jobs board (Workday)
Counted Oct 9, 2026
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 10). Leonardo: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 10, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/leonardo
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Leonardo: Company dossier." Data as of October 10, 2026. Accessed October 10, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/leonardo.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_leonardo_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{Leonardo}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/leonardo}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/leonardo},
urldate = {2026-10-10},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-10; each fact links its primary source}
}