This photo was taken on 28 January 2025 at the 17th European Space Conference in Brussels, Belgium, right after the European Space Agency (ESA) and Thales Alenia Space (TAS) signed a contract for the Envision mission. The agreement makes TAS the mission’s prime contractor, responsible for the final design, construction and testing of the Envision spacecraft.
From left to right in the photo: ESA Envision Project Manager Anne Pacros, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director of Science Carole Mundell, TAS Italia CEO and TAS Deputy CEO Giampiero Di Paolo and TAS Envision Project Manager Laura Costanza.