Thales Alenia Space wins contracts for Solar Orbiter instruments
Submit on Thursday, July 21st, 2011 22:57
Thales Alenia Space announced that it has won the Phase B contracts from Italian space agency ASI for the entire METIS (Multi Element Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy) instrument and the Data Processing Unit (DPU) on the Solar Wind Analyser (SWA), both part of the Solar Orbiter Mission in the European Space Agency’s Cosmic Vision programme.
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