The satellite, Sentinel-1A, which will orbit Earth’s Polar Regions, will transfer the data it collects via a laser communications terminal (LCT) of Tesat-Spacecom. Sentinel-1A was launched by the European Space Agency on 3 April 2014 from Europe’s Spaceport Kourou in French Guiana.
Sentinel 1-A is the first satellite of the ESA Sentinel fleet, which has...
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.
This article appeared in E-news of Photoniques "The French-speaking Review of the optical solutions", which you can consult on the following link: http: // www.photoniques.com on Monday, April 28th, 2014 09:05
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...
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...
