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The laser on the SuperCam instrument has fired its 500,000th shot on Mars, 4 years after the Perseverance rover on which it's aboard landed, and just a few months after the millionth shot fired by the Curiosity rover's ChemCam laser on Mars since August 2012. ...

The International Astronautical Congress will take place from September 18th to September 22nd, at the Paris Convention Centre. Thales Alenia Space will spotlight its latest capabilities, especially in the fields of lunar space exploration and environment monitoring, i...

Human space exploration is rapidly evolving toward long journeys and enabling life in deep-space has become the cutting-edge technology challenge. NASA's Artemis program is its brand new chapter: lunar exploration that will send humans farther into space than ever befo...

Interview broadcast for International Women's Day 2022

Interview broadcast for International Women's Day 2022.

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst has recently tested the future cislunar human accommodation inside a physical mockup and a virtual reality environment at Thales Alenia Space in Turin, where Lunar Gateway is largely being built, including the Internation...

The impressive James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope of this kind ever made, was successfully launched by Arianespace on December 25, 2021. A joint program between NASA and its counterparts in Europe (ESA) and Canada (CSA), Webb will observe the begin...

Cannes, January 4, 2022 – Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), logged a number of successes in 2021, including key contracts, major industrial milestones and launches, a series of innovations and new capital investments. ...

Turin, October 06, 2021 - Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced today that it has supported the final integration of critical systems on Orion’s European Service Module 2 (ESM 2) at the Airbus cleanroom in Bremen, Ger...

The ExoMars 2022 mission is designed to find traces of past or present life under the Martian soil. Leading this search is the Rosalind Franklin rover, which features the Analytical Laboratory Drawer. The ALD is a sophisticated micro-laboratory capable of processing on...