February 7, 2019 ¨C The four latest O3b satellites arrived at the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana on February 2, after being shipped from Thales Alenia Space¡¯s facility in Rome.
November 17th 2018 - The latest Cygnus cargo vessel has been successfully launched from NASA¡¯s Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, using an Antares rocket. This was the 10th Cygnus operational mission, ferrying supplies to the astronauts on the International S...
Microbiological contamination can be attenuated and controlled but never eliminated. Tests on ground and in space have shown that humid areas and wet systems are the most prone to biocontamination.
In the near future a warning system operating via the Galileo satellite positioning system will be able to give you real-time alerts. That, in a nutshell, is the purpose of a new European project dubbed GRALLE [Galileo-based Reliable Automatic Low-Latency Emergency War...
The BepiColombo MPO¡¯s payload comprises eleven instruments, including ISA (Italian Spring Accelerometer). We asked Maurizio Balasini (Science Equipment Program Manager at Thales Alenia Space) to explain this project.
The BepiColombo MPO¡¯s payload comprises eleven instruments, including MORE (Mercury Orbiter Radio-Science Experiment). We asked Lorenzo Simone (Radio-Communication Products and TT&C Manager at Thales Alenia Space) to describe this experiment.
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October 20th, 2018 - The BepiColombo mission to explore Mercury was launched by Arianespace this evening from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana (South America). But scientists will have to be patient to discover the mysteries of the closest planet to the...