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Solar Orbiter en route to the Sun… via Venus!
Solar Orbiter will eventually be Walking on Sunshine, but for the moment, it’s attracted by the siren song, " I'm your Venus, I'm your fire”. It will shortly reach Venus to perform its first flyby of five around the shiniest planet in the Solar System!
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Thales Alenia Space delivers the high gain antenna for the Euclid space telescope
Madrid, December 10, 2020 - Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has delivered the K-band high gain antenna to be integrated with the rest of the Euclid satellite in its plant in Turin. Thales Alenia Space in Spain is respo...
Stunning discovery of a distant galaxy similar to the Milky Way
Scientists have just revealed an amazing scientific discovery. Calling on the state-of-the-art technologies offered by the ALMA ground-based radiotelescope, astronomers have unveiled an extremely distant galaxy that could practically be mistaken for our own Milky Way. T...
Liftoff for ESA’s Solar Orbiter – Europe’s eyes on the Sun
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 ...
Soyouz VS23 launch: a quadruple success for Thales Alenia Space
COSMO SkyMed Second Generation (CSG-1), ArgosNEO on board ANGELS, CHEOPS and contribution to Soyuz launcher
Digging deep into the Martian sub-surface to detect signs 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.
Why Space Exploration Will Continue to be Our Never-Ending Frontier
A new phase of space exploration is leading to discoveries about our planet and about ourselves
EDEN ISS project extended through 2021!
The EDEN ISS (International Space Station) project, “Ground Demonstration of Plant Cultivation Technologies for Safe Food Production in Space”, originally scheduled to end in April 2019, has been extended.