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Selected again for NASA’s Mars exploration programme, Thales has now delivered the laser for the SuperCam instrument to the French space agency CNES, which is partnering NASA for Mars 2020.

NASA has begun building the Mars 2020 rover and integrating the instruments it will carry. The Mars 2020 mission will follow in the footsteps of Curiosity, which has been exploring Gale Crater on the surface of Mars for five and a half years, and will continue the sear...

The laser system is intended for South West Jiaotong University in Chengdu.

 Thales laser installation has started and the customer has witnessed the first lasing effects.

One of the world’s most powerful lasers – designed and built by Thales – capable of bursts of light equivalent to twenty times all the power consumed on Earth in fraction of a second – has been acquired by the University of Strathclyde. ...

As part of his state visit to Romania, French President François Hollande accompanied the Romanian Head of State, Klaus W. Iohannis, on a visit of the Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics’ site, where the world’s most powerful laser system will be installed. ...