The European space probe Rosetta is scheduled to land on comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November this year. We take a look at an epic story of interplanetary space travel that will have lasted more than a decade.
On 10 July, Thales Alenia Space launched four new satellites from Kourou for the O3b (Other 3 billion) constellation that aims to help bridge the digital divide between the billions of people with Internet connections in the northern hemisphere and those not so well se...
Within the framework of the exploration program ExoMars, Thales Alenia Space developed an inflatable device capable of collecting extraterrestrial samples.
The StratoBus project may immediately call to mind Google's Project Loon. But the advantage of StratoBus is that it offers long endurance and complete autonomy from a fixed position, while the high-altitude balloons in Loon move around the Earth and will offer only lim...
From a stratospheric multi-mission platform midway between a satellite and a UAV to inflatable capture mechanisms for recovering samples from another planet or smart telecommunications antennas, Thales Alenia Space is anticipating the needs of the future and developing...