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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2018 #ActInSpace® competition - Entries open
Friday 25 and Saturday 26 May, CNES, ESA and ESA BIC Sud France will be organizing ActInSpace®, the top international competition devoted to space applications. Midway between a...
Other fieldApril 11, 2018 -
[Replay] Ariane 5 launch on April 5, 2018
Ariane 5 ECA orbited 2 telecommunications satellites DSN-1/Superbird-8 and HYLAS 4 from the Guiana Space Centre on the night of 5/6 April, 2018. Watch the replay !
News Ariane General public, InstitutionalApril 6, 2018 -
CNESMAG 76 - France/Germany: together in space
CNESMAG 76 about France - Germany space cooperation is online
News Institutional affairsApril 4, 2018 -
CNESMAG 75 - Digital : boosting space
CNESMAG 75 about digital is online !
News Institutional affairsFebruary 13, 2018 -
[Replay] Ariane 5 launch on January, 25th 2018 (...
Ariane 5 ECA orbited Al Yah 3 and SES-14, 2 telecommunications satellites from the Guiana Space Centre on Thursday January, 25th.
News ArianeJanuary 26, 2018 -
[PRESS] France and China step up space...
CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall signed a memorandum of understanding on climate actions and space exploration with Wu Yanhua, Acting Administrator of the China National Space...
News Observation, Institutional affairsJanuary 10, 2018 -
4 new Galileo satellites in orbit !
Ariane 5 ES orbited 4 Galileo satellites from The Guiana Space Centre on Monday 12, December 2017. Watch the replay !
News, Event Ariane General public, InstitutionalDecember 13, 2017 -
CNESMAG 74 - Climate : One Planet Summit
CNESMAG 74 about climate is online!
News Institutional affairsDecember 7, 2017 -
First gravitational results from Microscope
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity continues to stand the test of time and scientists’ ever deeper probing. The first results from the Microscope satellite have...
News SciencesDecember 4, 2017 -
[PRESS] First results from Microscope satellite...
Measurements of the equivalence principle had not been improved upon for 10 years, but now the first results from CNES’s Microscope satellite, equipped with accelerometers...
News SciencesDecember 4, 2017 -
[PRESS] James Webb Space Telescope (Weeb) sees...
The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has reached a key milestone with the completion of cryogenic tests on its telescope and instruments.
News ObservationNovember 20, 2017 -
[PRESS] French President Emmanuel Macron visits...
Friday 27 October, French President Emmanuel Macron visited the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), where he was welcomed by CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall, the CSG’s Director Didier...
News Institutional affairsOctober 30, 2017 -
[PRESS] Galileo serving connected/autonomous...
CNES, the Commissariat General for Sustainable Development/Research and Innovation Directorate (DRI), the Directorate General for Infrastructure, Transport and the Sea (DGITM),...
News TelecommunicationsOctober 30, 2017 -
[REPLAY] ARIANE 5 LAUNCH ON 29 SEPTEMBER 2017
Friday September 29, Ariane 5 completed a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre, orbiting two telecommunications satellites, Intelsat 37e & BSAT-...
News Ariane General public, InstitutionalSeptember 30, 2017 -
[PRESS] French space in Adelaide for 68th IAC
68th IAC - Adelaide, Australia, from 25 to 29 September.
News Ariane, Observation, Sciences, Telecommunications, DefenceSeptember 27, 2017 -
[PRESS] CNES and ArianeGroup step up cooperation...
On 15 September, CNES and ArianeGroup—the lead contractor for the Ariane family of launch vehicles—signed an agreement to step up their cooperation, innovate more closely together...
News Ariane, Institutional affairsSeptember 27, 2017 -
[PRESS] CNES tasks 500,000th firing of Curiosity’...
This symbolic achievement is the latest milestone in a unique scientific and technological adventure that has seen 15,000 individual measurements made, over 10 000 images...
News SciencesSeptember 21, 2017 -
Huygens - Landing on Titan
In December 2004, the U.S. Cassini spacecraft released the European Huygens module for the most-distant landing yet accomplished in the history of space exploration. Titan, Saturn...
News SciencesSeptember 11, 2017
