The IXV (Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle), the European Space Agency's atmospheric reentry demonstrator, developed by Thales Alenia Space, was successfully launched by Arianespace today on board a Vega rocket from the Guiana Space Center.
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The French and Italian research ministers, Geneviève Fioraso and Stefania Giannini, will watch the launch of Europe's reentry demonstrator from Thales Alenia Space's Turin plant
Rome, January 15, 2015 – Jyrki Katainen, the Vice President of the European Commission, as well as European Commissioner for Jobs, Growth, Investments and Competitiveness, visited the Thales Alenia Space plant in Rome today.
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Cannes, January 12, 2015 – Thales Alenia Space announced today that it has been selected by the European Space Agency for one of the three phase B1 studies of the PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillation of stars) program, part of ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-25.
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Cannes, January 6, 2015 – Thales Alenia Space announced today that it has been selected by French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) to build the oceanography satellite SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography).
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Thales Alenia Space announced today the start of construction of a new building at its site in Cannes to be used for the integration and testing of high-resolution optical observation instruments.
Thales Alenia Space has been selected by the United Arab Emirates Air Force (UAEAF) to develop the very-high-resolution payload for their Falcon Eye program, within the scope of a consortium led by Airbus Defense and Space.
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