Claim · 2022-11-14 · announcement · Stated in source · Supported

Thales Alenia Space announced on 14 November 2022 that the European Commission had chosen it to lead the ASCEND feasibility study for data centres in orbit, within Horizon Europe.

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made a government award to ↓Thales Alenia Space

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Date: 2022-11-14 · announcement
Stage: announced

Scope and limitsThales Alenia Space's announcement; no Commission text or amount was retrieved. Before the pack's 2023 start, recorded because the 2024 results depend on it.

The evidence 01

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ASCEND: Thales Alenia Space to lead European feasibility study for data centers in space

Thales Alenia Space · 2022-11-14

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Source excerpt

“has been chosen by the European Commission to lead the ASCEND (Advanced Space Cloud for European Net zero emission and Data sovereignty) feasibility study for data centers in orbit”

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Thales Alenia Space
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 aca35b20acf2295a468971741751b5b53d01022772d610dab28161409dc0f857). Press release as served on 2026-10-28; dateline Cannes, November 14, 2022. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 aca35b20acf2295a468971741751b5b53d01022772d610dab28161409dc0f857, the same bytes). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
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Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Thales Alenia Space, “ASCEND: Thales Alenia Space to lead European feasibility study for data centers in space”, 2022-11-14.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (29 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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Relation. A public body states an award, grant or selection, with its stage: preliminary, final or disbursed. A preliminary award is not a final one, and a final award is not disbursement.

Date. Date of the announcement, as the source gives it.

Record ID cpo-orb-ascend-study-chosen