Thales Alenia Space hunting for life on Mars: 522 million contract for the ExoMars 2028 mission
The ExoMars 2028 mission represents a significant step in space exploration and the search for traces of life on the red planet
HAPPENED TODAY – Mariner 9 conquers Mars 50 years ago
Space mission resulted in global mapping of Mars with over 7 photos of the entire surface, revolutionizing Martian imagery and marking another point for Americans in the space race
HAPPENED TODAY – Mars: 45 years ago the first color photos
On September 3, 1976, NASA's Viking 2 probe landed on the red planet and took the first close-up and color photos of the Martian surface
Mars: Italian robots arriving on the red planet
Leonardo has signed a contract with Airbus to design two robotic arms - The devices will be used in NASA/ESA missions aiming to bring Martian samples to earth by 2031. An important day also for Thales Alenia Space
Who gets to Mars first? US-China challenge also in Space
In these days two missions will leave to reach the soil of the Red Planet: both will arrive in February 2021. For Beijing it is an absolute first, but now the American primacy in space is under discussion.
The Insight probe is on Mars: the video is spectacular
After a journey of six and a half months and 480 million kilometers traveled, the NASA probe has successfully arrived on the red planet, from which it has sent the first spectacular images - Within a few weeks it will send data on…
Marte, Italian project on the first cultivable vegetables
Three Italian scientists have reproduced the environmental conditions of Mars in a hyper-technological greenhouse in the Oman desert and discovered that cabbage, amaranth, mustard and radish are perfectly cultivable and edible
Cristoforetti: "I dreamed of spaceships, a journey among the stars"
INTERVIEW WITH SAMANTHA CRISTOFORETTI, ESA astronaut and first Italian woman in space with the record of permanence - "The International Space Station is like a luxury campsite the size of a football field: we arrived in orbit in…
Schiaparelli crashed on Mars (VIDEO)
The probe of the European mission ExoMars failed its landing: the news that the lander disintegrated on the soil of the red planet is now official - The good news is that Europe has another probe, the second,…
THE 5 TOP NEWS OF THE DAY (VIDEO)
More news from the USA: after the gala dinner between Obama and Renzi, tonight is the turn of the last TV confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump (voting takes place on November 8) - But it is also the big day of the Schiaparelli probe,…
The Schiaparelli probe has landed on Mars
It is the first European mission to arrive on the red planet and is led by Italy, head of the European ESA project - The materials are supplied by the Italian aerospace giant Leonardo, through the subsidiary Thales Alenia Space - VIDEO.
Italy goes to Mars, the Orion spacecraft is in orbit
Italy is part of the international project, directed by NASA and the European Space Agency, which in 2018 will take the Orion spacecraft to Mars - Our country, thanks to the work of Thales Alenia Space, will have the task of creating the…
The EU goes to Mars with Italian technology
The mission to the red planet officially started from Kazakhstan - Italy covers three roles: first financier, technical-scientific leader and industrial leader with Thales Alenia Space, of the Finmeccanica group.