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The Descent and Carrier modules for the ExoMars 2020 mission have been integrated in Turin. The spacecraft in launch configuration will now be shipped to Cannes for environmental tests, before the launch to Mars to search for traces of life.

While ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is sniffing the Martian atmosphere, the ExoMars 2020 Rover will analyse the deepest-ever subsurface soil samples to find any forms of life on the Red Planet.

A half-century after the first man on the moon, Thales Alenia Space is participating in developing a permanent human lunar presence for a better and sustainable life on Earth.

Thales’s Angénieux optics continues to make space history a half century after man’s first step on the moon. Read on.

A new phase of space exploration is leading to discoveries about our planet and about ourselves

ROCC will control Rover surface operations as it searches for signs of past or present life

The idea of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business often conjures up images of space-age workplaces overrun with robots. While the concept of AI seems new to many, it has been around for decades. The phrase “artificial intelligence” was coined in 1956 at a workshop he

Turin – 8 May 2019  -  After a challenging engineering phase, the Analytical Laboratory Drawer (ALD), the core of the Rover of the ExoMars 2020 ESA Program, has been successfully integrated and tested by Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales 67% an

“Hi, this is the ExoMars orbiter. How are you doing down there?” If you’re a space fan, you may know that it’s the Trace Gas Orbiter from the 2016 ExoMars mission talking here. Since then, the spacecraft has been in a circular 400 km orbit around Mars, with all instrume

From April 8 to 11, Thales Alenia Space will be at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in the United States, to showcase its latest solutions for space exploration and orbital infrastructures. With the deployment of two Thales Alenia Space-built telecommu