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ESA selects Airbus for exoplanet mission Ariel

EUR 200 million contract, launch in 2029

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a contract with Airbus to build the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) mission, the fourth medium-class mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision programme.Ariel will study the composition of exoplanets, how they formed and how they evolve, by surveying a diverse sample of about 1000 extrasolar planets in visible and infrared wavelengths. T...

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Toulouse, France, 12/07/2021 15:14
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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