On February 18, 2021, (Paris Time), after “seven minutes of terror”, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter landed unscathed on Jezero crater, following a 490-million-kilometre journey. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech On July 30, 2020, the Perseverance...
On July 30, 2020, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA successfully launched both Perseverance robotic rover and Ingenuity helicopter using an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Landing is planned for February 18, 2021, in...
End of October 2019, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) installed on the Mayall Telescope has trained its network of 5,000 optical fibre “eyes” to see its “first light”. DESI is currently undergoing a series of tests, before starting scientific...
Developed by Winlight System in collaboration with the French Alternative Energies & Atomic Energy Commission (CEA-CESTA) and the Aix-Marseille University, the patented technology Cleapart-100 is a particle deposition rate monitoring device with no influence on...
Winlight System designed the optical components of SuperCam, one of the seven science instruments to equip the rover of the U.S. “Mars 2020” mission. After seven months of integration in the facilities of the French space agency CNES, the performances of the...
