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Events Dec 14. 2015

Europe’s Vega launcher completes sixth successful flight

During the night of 2 December, Vega accomplished a flawless sixth flight from its launch pad in Kourou. Thales’s Quasar inertial measurement unit perfectly fulfilled its role in placing the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft into orbit.

Innovation Mar 24. 2015

Vega and Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle: dual success for Thales

Last February, a Vega launcher injected Europe’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle demonstrator (IXV) into a suborbital atmospheric re-entry trajectory. The...