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IRIS2: everything you need to know about this new European constellation

Jean-Pierre Diris , Interministerial Coordinator for France on IRIS² and GOVSATCOM

On March 11th, 2025
5 min reading time

Europe will be deploying the IRIS2 constellation of telecoms satellites in 2030 to avoid relying on non-European players for its strategic or governmental needs.

Lina Hadid
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BepiColombo: revelations from the Mercury mission

Lina Hadid, Astrophysicist and Researcher at Plasma Physics Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris)

On March 5th, 2025
4 min reading time
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Mars: how studying earthquakes changed our vision of the red planet

Philippe Lognonné, Professor at Université Paris Cité and at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

On January 15th, 2025
5 min reading time

Scientists are reporting on the first seismic signals measured on the planet Mars following NASA's InSight mission, launched in 2018.

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How can we detect life on distant planets?

Julien de Wit, Associate Professor of Planetary Sciences at MIT , Amaury Triaud , Professor of Exoplanetology at University of Birmingham

On May 21st, 2024
3 min reading time

A new approach is being considered to detect exoplanets with the surface conditions needed to harbor life.

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Seeking out life forms on Jupiter’s moons

Olivier La Marle, Head of the Universe Sciences programme at CNES

On June 13th, 2023
6 min reading time

The JUICE mission aims to test the conditions that could have led to the emergence of habitable environments on 3 of Jupiter's 4 moons.

Pierre Henriquet
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Space industry: what are the scientific and geopolitical challenges for Europe?

Pierre Henriquet, Doctor in Nuclear Physics and Columnist at Polytechnique Insights

On June 6th, 2023
4 min reading time