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1 All rights reserved, 2010, Thales Alenia Space BL OOS Page 1 9-10/01/2010 Unlocking the secrets of the Universe V. Giorgio Director for Science TAS-IPadova, Jan 9 th- 10 th - 2010

2 All rights reserved, 2010, Thales Alenia Space BL OOS Page 2 9-10/01/2010 Unlocking the secrets of the Universe

3 All rights reserved, 2010, Thales Alenia Space BL OOS Page 3 9-10/01/2010 Unlocking the secrets of the Universe What does it mean for the person in the street ? Finding Earth’s and humanity’s place in the universe How did we get from the Big Bang to Here and Now? Are there worlds elsewhere?

4 All rights reserved, 2010, Thales Alenia Space BL OOS Page 4 9-10/01/2010 Launch : 14 May 2009 at 13:12:02 UTC, from Kourou CSG Launcher: One Ariane 5 ECA Planck : lower position, inside the Sylda 5 adapter Herschel : upper position, above the adapter Destination : Lagrange point L2, 1.5 million km away from the Earth, on Earth’s shadow side The Herschel & Planck launcher Unlocking the secrets of the Universe

5 All rights reserved, 2010, Thales Alenia Space BL OOS Page 5 9-10/01/2010 Unlocking the secrets of the Universe Herschel Planck Herschel and Planck – two technological jewels

6 All rights reserved, 2010, Thales Alenia Space BL OOS Page 6 9-10/01/2010 Unlocking the secrets of the Universe COROT: 3 years in orbit The COROT space telescope, launched on December 27th, 2006, is an astronomy mission led by CNES. Thales Alenia Space supplied the PROTEUS platform and the 27-cm diameter telescope. Corot-7b, announced on February 3, 2009 in Paris, is the smallest terrestrial planet ever detected outside our solar system. Less than twice the size of Earth, it orbits a Sun-like star; its temperature is so high that it may be covered in lava or water vapor.

7 All rights reserved, 2010, Thales Alenia Space BL OOS Page 7 9-10/01/2010 The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is one of the largest ground- based astronomy projects of the next decade. It will be an interferometer consisting of at least 66 antennas located on the Chajnantor Altiplano in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile at 5000m altitude. TAS contribution to ALMA Unlocking the secrets of the Universe ALMA is a partnership between the scientific communities of East Asia, Europe and North America with Chile. Thales Alenia Space works in a consortium supplying 25 ALMA antennas, with options to increase the number of antennas to 32. ALMA Present… … and future

8 All rights reserved, 2010, Thales Alenia Space BL OOS Page 8 9-10/01/2010 Past astrophysics satellites of TAS also include: - BeppoSAX (ASI with NIVR), a hard X-ray observatory, which solved the enigma of the origin of gamma-ray bursts by revealing their X-ray afterglow - INTEGRAL (ESA), in operation since 2002, which has opened a new era in a gamma-ray astronomy. The latest discoveries include galactic positron annihilation, Soft Gamma Repeaters, magnetars, the origin of high-energy emission from Crab Nebula… just to name a few. TAS science highlights Unlocking the secrets of the Universe BeppoSAX Integral Morphology of the Crab nebula by Integral BeppoSax follow-up of GRB970228 afterglow

9 All rights reserved, 2010, Thales Alenia Space BL OOS Page 9 9-10/01/2010 HUYGENS

10 All rights reserved, 2010, Thales Alenia Space BL OOS Page 10 9-10/01/2010 EXOMARS

11 All rights reserved, 2010, Thales Alenia Space BL OOS Page 11 9-10/01/2010 Unlocking the secrets of the Universe V. Giorgio Director for Science TAS-IPadova, Jan 9 th- 10 th - 2010

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