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[PRESS] MARS 2020 MISSION - PERSEVERANCE ROVER...

Thursday 18 February, the Perseverance rover set down in Jezero Crater, an impact basin 45 kilometres across, home to an ancient river delta that flowed 3½ billion years ago into...

[CNESMAG] Exploration : moving up a scale

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[Mars 2020] Destination Mars : guidebook n°3

Once no more than a faint orange dot in the sky, in the space of less than a century Mars has become a keen focus of study. Its ancient river beds, outflow channels and giant...

[REPLAY] Soyuz successfully orbits CSO-2 satellite

Tuesday 29 December, Soyuz accomplished a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre carrying the French CSO-2 military observation and security satellite.

Happy new year!

CNES wishes you the best for 2021. In need of space.

[PRESS] Taranis : Vega fails on 17th flight

Mission failure. 8 minutes after liftoff of Vega mission VV17, following the first ignition of the engine of the Avum upper stage, a deviation of trajectory was identified,...

[CNESMAG] Taranis:the hidden side of storms

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Artemis programme: back to the Moon

NASA’s Artemis programme plans to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024, followed by an exploration/prospection phase using the Gateway as a staging outpost...

[PRESS] Successful final test firing of the P120C...

The P120C was successfully tested for the third time on October 7, at Europe’s Spaceport solid rocket motor test bench operated by the CNES.

CNES PARTNERS WITH FRENCH RADIOLOGY SOCIETY, NEW...

[PRESS] TRIBUTE TO DR. MICHAEL FREILICH, FORMER...

CNES pays glowing tribute to the memory of this outstanding partner of our agency.

[PRESS] ALPHA MISSION, THOMAS PESQUET TO RETURN...

Next spring, ESA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet will be returning to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Alpha mission and the first European astronaut to fly there on...

[CNESMAG] Exploring life's origins:the...

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[PRESS] ESA RELEASES FIRST IMAGES FROM SOLAR...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the first images from its Solar Orbiter spacecraft, which completed its commissioning phase in mid-June and made its first close...

[PRESS] INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL CONGRESS (IAC...

To limit population movements, the 71st edition of IAC will be virtual (The Cyberspace Edition) from 12-14 October 2020. Dubai will then be hosting the 72nd IAC in 2021, Paris the...

[CNESMAG] Biodiversity:building resilience

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BepiColombo takes last snaps of Earth en route to...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its first flyby on 10 April, as the spacecraft came less than 12 700 km from Earth’s surface at 06:25 CEST, steering its trajectory...

Coronavirus lockdown leading to drop in pollution...

New data, based on observations from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, are showing strong reductions in nitrogen dioxide concentrations over several major cities across Europe...