Category Archives: Achievements

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...

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THALES SESO SURVEYS THE DARK ENERGY

Thales SESO delivered to the Dark Energy Survey consortium a set of impressive large lenses forming the wide field optical corrector of an astronomical observing facility located in Chile. The Dark Energy Survey project is a worldwide organization for fundamental research about the origin of the accelerating universe thank to demonstration of existence of this...

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KOMPSAT-3

Thales SESO from Aix to Provence (France), realized for KARI (South Korea) the manufacturing of all the mirrors of the telescopes of their earth observation satellite (5 mirrors, 2 flight models). In these activities was also included the mechanical design, the manufacturing and the mounting of the attachment flexures between the mirrors, the integration on...

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THALES SESO’S TECHNOLOGIES IN KOREA

Our collaboration with the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, KARI, started in 1996. Thales SESO supplied first, a system of OGSE (Optical Ground Support Equipment) for KOMPSAT-1 (Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite). KARI obtained in 2006, the go-ahead to carry out the satellite KOMPSAT-3, behind the successful launch of KOMPSAT-2. Thales SESO has won a contract for manufacturing...

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