As the ExoMars spacecraft prepares to release its Schiaparelli module for a landing on Mars next week, we talked to Walter Cugno, Thales Alenia Space Italy Vice President for Exploration and Science and General Manager of the Turin plant.
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ExoMars: all you have to know about the launch campaign regarding the Radar Doppler Altimeter, a key technology onboard ExoMars descent modules, for both 2016 & 2020 missions. The major part of these tests were carried out in Morocco, in Erfoud, on soil similar to ...
French space agency CNES and Thales Alenia Space conducted a demonstration under real conditions in July 2016 that will bring new evolutions to the satellite navigation market.
The European Space Agency¡¯s Rosetta spacecraft has just completed its historic mission with a controlled descent to the surface of the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet, ending a journey through the Solar System that began in March 2004.
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Just one month from today, on October 16, 2016, the Entry Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM), dubbed Schiaparelli, will be released by the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and start its three-day descent towards Mars.
MEOLUT Next passed the commissioning tests conducted by French space agency CNES with flying colors, as it met all 42 requirements set by COSPAS-SARSAT.
Just hours after the recent earthquake struck Italy, the Sentinel 1-A and 1-B satellites from Europe¡¯s Copernicus program and the Italian government¡¯s COSMO-SkyMed satellite sprang into action to support disaster relief efforts by supplying maps and surveillance.
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