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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Jean-Pascal Le Franc appointed Director of...
Jean-Pascal Le Franc, previously CNES’s Deputy Director of Planning, International Relations and Quality, has been appointed to head the Directorate (DPI), effective Thursday 24...
News Institutional affairs InstitutionalNovember 25, 2016 -
Proxima mission Thomas Pesquet reaches...
The Soyuz spacecraft launched Thursday 17 November from Baikonur with France’s ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet on board docked today with the International Space Station.
News Other field, ProximaNovember 20, 2016 -
Thomas Pesquet en route to the International...
Thursday 17 November at 21:20 CET, Soyuz completed a flawless launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, sending aloft France’s ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, Russian...
News Institutional affairs , Other field, ProximaNovember 17, 2016 -
[REPLAY] ARIANE 5 LAUNCH ON NOVEMBER 17 2016
Ariane 5 ES orbited four Galileo satelllites from the Guiana Space Centre. The lift off happened on 17 November at 10:06 (French Guiana time), at 14 :06 (Paris time).
News ArianeNovember 10, 2016 -
Ariane 6 to take Europe’s launchers to new...
The Ariane 6 programme, approved at the ESA Ministerial Council meeting of 2 December 2014, seeks to halve launch costs per kilogram compared to Ariane 5. CNES has responsibility...
News ArianeNovember 10, 2016 -
FIMOC: Martians on Earth
On 6 August, the international Curiosity team celebrated the rover’s fourth (Earth) year on the surface of Mars. The rover hasn’t found any green men on the red planet yet, but...
News SciencesOctober 27, 2016 -
ExoMars: Schiaparelli spotted by MRO
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has identified markings probably left by the impact of the Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing technology demonstrator module on the...
News SciencesOctober 25, 2016 -
CNES awarded Happy Trainees 2016/2017 label
CNES was recently awarded the Happy Trainees label for 2016/2017 by Meilleures-Entreprises.com following a survey of interns and apprentices in July.
News Institutional affairsOctober 20, 2016 -
CNES post-doctoral research scientist Audrey...
“I’m from Alsace in Northeast France and a keen mountaineer, so I wasn’t really pre-destined for studying the ocean!” says Audrey Hasson with a smile. On 12 October, the young...
News SciencesOctober 20, 2016 -
CNESMAG 70 - ISS, Science and people
Surveying Earth from its 400-kilometre vantage point in orbit, the International Space Station (ISS) is poised for two key events at the end of the year on which France will be...
News Institutional affairsOctober 20, 2016 -
ExoMars 2016: TGO enters Martian orbit
The ExoMars 2016 mission’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) was successfully captured into Martian orbit Wednesday 19 October. However, the landing of Schiaparelli had still not been...
News SciencesOctober 19, 2016 -
Hurricane Matthew: The Charter activated in 5...
Friday October 7th, an extremely destructive and long-lived hurricane made his landfall over the United States coasts. The climatic monster wrought widespread destruction and...
News Observation General public, InstitutionalOctober 7, 2016 -
[REPLAY] ARIANE 5 LAUNCH ON OCTOBER 05 2016
Wednesday October the 5th, Ariane 5 completed a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre, orbiting two telecommunications satellites, Sky Muster TM II...
News ArianeSeptember 30, 2016 -
ExoMars 2016: Perfecting the Trajectory!
On 19 October, the landing demonstrator known as ExoMars Schiaparelli will touch down on Mars after detaching itself from the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). Its job is to validate new...
News Observation General publicSeptember 2, 2016 -
Charter reaches 500th activation as it swings...
The International Charter on Space and Major Disasters was recently activated to come to the aid of victims of the terrible floods in Bangladesh. This is the 500th time the...
News ObservationAugust 4, 2016 -
Rosetta severs link with Philae
The Electrical Support System (ESS) through which the Rosetta orbiter has been listening out for Philae will be turned off Wednesday 27 July at 11 a.m. CEST. The remaining supply...
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyJuly 27, 2016 -
CNESMAG 69 - Mars, the New Frontier
Drawing on the in-depth knowledge of Mars gleaned from the exceptional Mars Express, Curiosity, MAVEN, ExoMars, InSight and Mars 2020 missions, France, CNES and our scientific...
News, Book SciencesJuly 19, 2016 -
Ariane 5 launch on 17 June 2016
The heavy launcher orbited two Communications Satellites: BRIsat and Echostar XVIII from French Guiana.
News, Event Ariane General public, InstitutionalJune 16, 2016
