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One year ago almost to the day, on the evening of 18 February 2021, the Mars 2020 mission’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater, carrying with it the French-U.S. SuperCam, a greatly enhanced version of the ChemCam instrument already operating on the NASA MSL miss...

Two reasons to celebrate on the Red Planet: Perseverance's first birthday, and the one millionth laser shot carried out by Mars rovers.

Cutting-edge laser technology from Thales on board the new Mars rover is set to help discover whether there was past life on the planet.

Research into particle acceleration might just be on the threshold of a revolution. In the ongoing quest to understand the universe, humankind needs new tools to accelerate particles to even higher speeds so we can delve further into the infinitesimally small building b...

The most powerful laser system in the world developed and installed by Thales in Romania with the capacity to deliver pulses with the record power level of 10 petawatts, was formally accepted on October 11, 2019 by our Customer, the National Institute of Physics and Nuc...

The Extreme Light Infrastructure for Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) project in Romania recently reached on March 20, 2019 a significant milestone: the ultra-high intensity laser system developed by Thales has successfully generated its first pulses at a peak power level of 10...