At the beginning of December 2019, Thales Microwave and Imaging Sub-Systems was in Chicago attending the RSNA Tradeshow as well as hosting a customer event!

Earlier this year, Thales celebrated 17 years of training pilots in the RAF and the Royal Navy to fly the Tucano trainer aircraft. During that time, our simulator team provided over 45,000 hours of synthetic training to more than 1,000 pilots. Now, as the Tucano retires from service, we have a new mission…

Machines that detect when their human operators tire and need a cup of coffee could be closer than we think, thanks to a funding partnership between Thales and the University of South Australia (UniSA)…

Our digital technologies are serving the rail industry in all of our activities:. Autonomous Train & Metro. Connected infrastructure for predictive maintenance. Data-driven decision support. AI-based security solutions. Next generation ticketing. Digital platform to support as-a-Service business models.

Earlier this year, Thales and the University of Southampton announced they had formed a major partnership to collaborate in the research and development of the next generation of maritime autonomous systems. Ten months in we have caught up Professor Stephen Turnock to hear more about the uses of autonomous technology at sea and what the joint team have been working on…

In the age of the Internet and the digital transformation of recent years, cybersecurity has become a familiar topic of conversation inside and outside the workplace. What people tend to forget is that cybersecurity and cyberthreats have been permanent features of the landscape throughout the last 50 years of technological change.

Every year, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities is celebrated on December 3 all over the world. The event is aimed at raising public awareness of the challenge faced by people with disabilities and promoting their dignity, rights and well-being. This year’s official motto is “The future is Accessible”.

Civil and defence organisations alike rely on Thales to keep their crews ready for mission-critical operations: in the air, on land, at sea and in cyberspace. Visit us at I/ITSEC 2019 to find out more.

There's a busy month ahead for planet Earth, with the COP 25 in Madrid from 2-13 December and the UICN World Climate Day on 8 December. But beyond the meeting schedule, there is growing acceptance by our institutions, industries and citizens of the urgent need for action on climate disruption. Thales recognises it has a role to play, and is raising the tempo of its environmental protection programme with a new plan of action for a low-carbon future.

In the presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron, Thales, Peking University and Ecole Polytechnique signed on Nov 6, 2019 in Beijing at the Great Hall of the People a strategic Agreement for future cooperation in Scientific Research in the area of Physics.

The most powerful laser system in the world developed and installed by Thales in Romania with the capacity to deliver pulses with the record power level of 10 petawatts, was formally accepted on October 11, 2019 by our Customer, the National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering Horia Hulubei (IFIN-HH).

The Meteosat program is celebrating its birthday, 42 years after the first satellite was launched in 1977. Meteosat-1 was launched on November 23, 1977. Placed in geostationary orbit at 0 degrees longitude, it provided a permanent view over most of Europe, the whole of Africa, the Middle East and the eastern half of South America.

When metro operators are asked about autonomous metros, their first questions are: is it safe, is it proven and how will it benefit my operations?

Remote decision-making and Optimising financial transactions in multimodal transport are part of the theme of Decision making & systems at Thales InnovDays 2019.

Train positioning is a hot topic in China. For the first time, this onboard autonomous system makes it possible to locate a train with high precision and in real time.

The advent of 5G connectivity and the roll-out of the Internet of Things will facilitate real-time supervision and predictive maintenance of overhead lines.

Autonomous intelligent level-crossing surveillance.

The digitisation of signalling systems will bring totally new possibilities to the rail sector.

How to save time buying a train, metro or tram ticket?

RailBot - Eye is a new solution that provides trains with a new visual sense using Artificial Intelligence to navigate autonomously in an open-world environment.