News and Events
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SWOT satellite climbs higher for a better view
Between 10 and 20 July, the French-American SWOT satellite, which measures the...
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CALIPSO bows out
The CALIPSO scientific mission ended on 1 August 2023. This date marks the end...
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Ariane 6 development status check
The final stages of Ariane 6’s development are underway in French Guiana and...
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CNES 2018 annual report
CNES annual report 2018 is available online.
News Institutional affairsJune 11, 2019 -
[PRESS] Laurence Monnoyer-Smith appointed Climate...
From 2015 until last month, Laurence Monnoyer-Smith was commissioner general and interministerial delegate for sustainable development at France’s Ministry for the Ecological and...
News Institutional affairsJune 3, 2019 -
[PRESS] CNES presents L’espace en tête,...
Based on the 33 daily space chronicles by CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall that aired on Europe 1 radio over the summer of 2018.
News Institutional affairsMay 23, 2019 -
[CNESMAG] Space Exploration: solar system in sight
CNESMAG 80 about exploration is now available online.
News Institutional affairsMay 17, 2019 -
[PRESS] Appointments to CNES Executive Committee
Caroline Laurent is appointed Director of Orbital Systems (DSO) and to CNES’s Executive Committee, effective 1 September 2019. She will join CNES on 1 July. Marie-Anne Clair is...
News Institutional affairsMay 6, 2019 -
[PRESS] CNES Chief Operating Officer Lionel...
Friday 12 April, CNES Chief Operating Officer Lionel Suchet was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour. CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall presented him with his insignia at a...
News Institutional affairsApril 15, 2019 -
[Replay] Soyuz VS22 launch 04/04/19
Soyuz rocket orbited four 03b telecommunications satellites from our Guiana Space Centre on April 4, 2019. The lift off happened at 19:03 (Paris time), 14h03 (Kourou time) after a...
News Ariane General public, InstitutionalApril 4, 2019 -
[PRESS] France set to fly to the Moon with China
Monday 25 March, at the Elysée Palace in the presence of Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and CNSA Vice-Administrator Zhang Jianhua...
News Sciences, Institutional affairsMarch 26, 2019 -
State Visits of President Emmanuel Macron to...
President Emmanuel Macron paid state visits to Ethiopia on Wednesday 13 March and Kenya on Thursday 14 March. CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall was part of the delegation,...
Institutional affairsMarch 14, 2019 -
[PRESS] CNES and ArianeGroup launch ArianeWorks...
To be called ArianeWorks, the new platform will boost innovation for future launcher development by bringing teams together under one roof and connecting them to Europe’s space...
News Ariane, Institutional affairs InstitutionalFebruary 21, 2019 -
[CNESMAG] Defence:space in demand
CNESMAG 79 about defence is now available online!
News Defence, Institutional affairs Institutional, Specialist publicFebruary 7, 2019 -
[Replay] Ariane 5 launch VA247 on February 5, 2019
Ariane 5 orbited two telecommunications satellites from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou. Liftoff happened on Tuesday February 5, 2019 at 18:01 (Kourou time), 22:01 (Paris time).
News Ariane General public, InstitutionalFebruary 5, 2019 -
IASI pinpoints 248 ammonia emission hotspots
By analysing measurements from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI), a French-Belgian team has compiled the first global map of ammonia emissions with a...
News Observation Specialist public, Science and technologyDecember 20, 2018 -
[Replay] Soyuz launch VS20 (CSO-1) on December 19...
Soyuz rocket orbited CSO-1 satellite from our French Guiana Space Center on December 19, 2018. Launch initialy scheduled on December 18, 2018 had been postponed by 24 hours due to...
News, Event Defence General public, InstitutionalDecember 19, 2018 -
Jezero Crater: Landing Site for Mars 2020 Rover
NASA has chosen Jezero Crater as the landing site for its upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission after a five-year search, during which details of more than 60 candidate locations on...
News SciencesDecember 4, 2018 -
OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft arrives at Asteroid Bennu
Now, at about 11.8 miles (19 kilometers) from Bennu’s Sun-facing surface, OSIRIS-REx will begin a preliminary survey of the asteroid. The spacecraft will commence flyovers of...
News SciencesDecember 4, 2018 -
What do we know about Mars’ interior?
The first missions to reach the surface of Mars date back 40 years, but many mysteries still lie beneath its top layer of iron oxide. To delve deeper into the red planet, the...
News SciencesNovember 26, 2018 -
Source of Saturn’s kilometric radiation revealed
Using data from the Cassini mission, scientists are unravelling the mechanisms that drive auroral radio emissions at Saturn’s poles, which are key to understanding certain...
News SciencesNovember 13, 2018
