All Articles in Space Exploration

When BepiColombo lifted off on October 20, 2018 from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, we all knew that it wasn’t going to be a long goodbye.

Solar Orbiter is a part of European Space Agency’s “Cosmic Vision” program Solar Orbiter will be Europe’s most advanced look at the Sun’s corona, thanks to Thales Alenia Space’s coronagraph Metis developed on behalf of Italian Space Agency (ASI) Heat Shield, designed...

The European Space Agency’s Euclid deep space probe telescopic satellite, with Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor, will map billions of galaxies to unlock the mysteries of the universe.

Space Rider is Europe’s next-generation reusable transportation system for low Earth orbit.

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