After a journey lasting nearly seven months, NASA¡¯s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars yesterday, February 18. It landed in the Jezero Crater, a 45-kilometer (28 mile) hole in the ground about 18 degrees north of the Martian equator. This was a huge success for NA...
Lunar Gateway¡¯s Habitation And Logistics Outpost (HALO) is moving forwards. Thales Alenia Space, in coordination with prime contractor Northrop Grumman, marks a first major milestone regarding the Lunar quest: the welding of two components, a ring and a cylinder for HA...
Thales Alenia Space recently delivered the high-gain antenna (HGA) for the JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission to prime contractor Airbus Defence & Space. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, our engineers and technicians continue to perform critical operations for...
For asset intensive organisations, predictive maintenance is regarded as one of the top opportunities and hence priorities and for the coming years. Bernard Roux, CEO of Thales in the UAE, expands on how the benefits of predictive maintenance can be unlocked.
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IXV, the Intermediate Experimental Vehicle, was launched six years ago to the day, on February 11, 2015. It made a flawless suborbital flight lasting 100 minutes and covering 25,000 kilometers, the last 8,000 in a searing atmospheric descent and splashdown right on tar...
Software Engineering Manager Nadia Johnson is a tireless advocate for the benefits and opportunities offered by apprenticeships, especially in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) subjects. Here¡¯s why¡
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Eleven years ago to the day, the Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off with two new modules for the International Space Station: Node 3, dubbed Tranquility, and the Cupola. Both were designed, integrated and tested by Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy. The two modules ...