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The Parker Solar Probe mission, launched on August 12, 2018, is the first to graze a star, our Sun. On November 6, 2018, Parker Solar Probe successfully completed its first […]
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French laboratories (1) including IRAP (Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse and CNRS) have just reached a major milestone for HARMONI, the very high resolution imaging spectrograph of the Extremely Large […]
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Experiments conducted by an international team involving the Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP, University of Toulouse/CNRS) and the Laboratoire de chimie et physique quantiques (LCPQ, University of […]
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The European Research Council (ERC) awarded a “Consolidator Grant” on Thursday 29 November 2018 to 291 European researchers to finance exploratory research projects lasting 5 years, with a maximum budget […]
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Saturn’s largest satellite Titan was overflown 127 times by the Cassini probe between 2004 and 2017. An international team including an IRAP researcher (1) compiled all the data from the […]
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The first phase of the commissioning of the MEA electron analyzers on the BepiColombo/Mio probe went perfectly. The two instruments were switched on for the first time on Saturday 24 […]
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The BepiColombo mission (ESA/JAXA) lifted off from Kourou on Friday, October 19, 2018 at 10:45 p.m. (Guyana local time). The technical and administrative teams of IRAP were able to immortalize […]
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Mercury is a planet that has so far been relatively little studied. Also, the European, ESA, and Japanese space agencies, JAXA, have worked together to meet this challenge and set […]
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About one year ago, a spectacular dive into Saturn’s upper atmosphere put an end to the Cassini mission, a unique project that studied the Saturn system for 13 years. During […]