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When ESA experts wanted to see what the ion engine designed for the SMART-1 mission to the Moon would finally look like, they turned to a French start-up company: News’UProduction.
When European Space Agency (ESA) experts wanted to see what the ion engine designed for the SMART-1 mission to the Moon would finally look like, they turned to a French start-up company: News’UProduction.
The result was an image of an engine still at the drawing board stage that united accuracy with texture and colour to give a very realistic impression of the engine’s final appearance.
Jean-Luc Atteleyn, photographer and CEO of News’UProduction says: “We managed to produce high quality and realistic images and animations of the engine based upon classical 3D design drawings. This was carried out in close collaboration with the design studio at SNECMA, the company responsible for producing the ion engine.”
In addition to using the 3D drawings, Atteleyn and his partner Patrick Callet, a teacher at Ecole Centrale in
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