GAIA is a space observatory of the ESA which is going to list approximately 1 billion (109) of components of the universe. Each will be approximately observed 70 times during 5 years of the telescope’s life. GAIA was successfully launched December 19th, 2013 and will reach its point of observation approximately 3 week later.
PROXIMA 2 celebrates its first anniversary
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On March 21st, 2014, the Beamline PROXIMA 2 of the synchrotron SOLEIL celebrated its first year of opening to the external users stemming from the...
IRVIS ENDOSCOPES
Thales SESO has been selected by the "Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik" for the design, production and installation of a set of 2 endoscopes which will be operated onto their Wendelstein W7-X Stellarator experiment (location in North Germany, near Greifswald). These equipments, also named "IRVIS endoscopes" (for InfraRed and VISible), will image onto different VIS...
LASER RETROREFLECTOR ARRAY – LRA
The planet gear SARAL was successfully thrown on February 25th, 2013 since the space center of Satish Dhawan, in the South of India. It includes the laser reflector LRA realized by Thales SESO constituted by 9 corners of cube.
The AltiKa project developed by the CNES is based on an altimeter in band Ka...
