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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COROT discovers a new stellar oddity
CNES’s space telescope has discovered a new object so exotic that astronomers aren’t sure whether to call it a planet. Named COROT-Exo-3b, the oddity is about the size of Jupiter...
News Sciences InstitutionalOctober 6, 2008 -
ATV takes its final dive
After 7 months in space, the Jules Verne ATV has completed its mission after a flawless destructive re-entry guided by the ATV Control Centre at CNES’s facility in Toulouse,...
News InstitutionalSeptember 30, 2008 -
ATV prepares for final moments
Après 6 mois de bons et loyaux services, l’ATV Jules Verne va tirer sa révérence. La scène se déroulera le 29 septembre prochain au dessus du Pacifique sud.
News InstitutionalSeptember 23, 2008 -
GMES in Lille on 16 and 17 September
The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme, one of Europe’s flagship projects alongside Galileo, will be in the spotlight for two days in September at the...
News InstitutionalAugust 31, 2008 -
Jason-2 delivers its first global maps
The first global ocean maps delivered by Jason-2 compare very closely to those obtained by its predecessor Jason-1. A real bonus for the teams calibrating the satellite’s...
News Observation InstitutionalAugust 7, 2008 -
Toulouse takes the pulse of Jason-2
During the night of 3-4 July, the Jason-2 oceanography satellite reached its final operational orbit at an altitude of 1,336 km. Positioning operations were conducted from the...
News Observation InstitutionalAugust 6, 2008 -
Rosetta encounters a rare asteroid
The European Rosetta probe is set to encounter a small asteroid called Steins on 5 September. This flyby—halfway to the probe’s ultimate target, comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko—will...
News InstitutionalAugust 6, 2008 -
1st Pleiades telescope in sight
With delivery of the 1st Pleiades telescope set for 31 July, the ORFEO Earth-observation programme is advancing apace. The French-built optical component of this system will...
News Observation InstitutionalAugust 1, 2008 -
Science teams to the fore
Every 2 years, CNES’s COSPAR report reviews advances in space science research. The latest report was given to attendees at the 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly held in Montreal,...
News InstitutionalAugust 1, 2008 -
New invention for dust-free optical disks
A CNES engineer has filed a patent for an invention that improves playing quality on CDs and DVDs at a cost of only €5. All it takes is a bit of dusting!
News InstitutionalJuly 31, 2008 -
T2L2 hitches a ride on Jason-2
Three passenger instruments on Jason-2, the ocean surface topography satellite launched 20 June, won’t be measuring sea-surface height. One of them is the Time Transfer by Laser...
News SciencesJuly 15, 2008 -
CNES wins award for satellite collision risk...
16 May, CNES engineer François Laporte, based at the Toulouse Space Centre, won the Best Paper of Symposium award at Space Ops 2008 for his contribution on operational management...
News InstitutionalJune 23, 2008 -
Jason-2 all set for the off
The Jason-2 oceanography satellite is now in the home straight and set for launch Friday 20 June. Before reaching final orbit, the satellite will go through a sequence of steps...
News InstitutionalJune 18, 2008 -
A leap forward for oceanography
Over the last 15 years, altimetry satellites have been poring over the oceans in every detail, collecting more data in 10 days than could be gathered over several centuries by...
News InstitutionalJune 10, 2008 -
Charting and forecasting ocean conditions
Satellite altimetry is the only space-based technology capable of penetrating below the ocean surface. This capability will benefit a broad range of ocean forecasting applications...
News InstitutionalJune 3, 2008 -
COROT discovers at least 2 new exoplanets
COROT recently discovered 2 new gas-giant exoplanets and an unknown celestial object, taking the total of exoplanets it has found to 4. Other signals detected by the satellite...
News Sciences InstitutionalMay 30, 2008 -
Jason-2: a family affair
Jason-2’s main mission is to take over from its predecessor Jason-1 and assure data continuity. But the latest in the series of oceanography satellites is also carrying some new...
News Observation InstitutionalMay 27, 2008 -
COROT discovers unusual exoplanet
The COROT space telescope has revealed the existence of CoRoT-Exo-4b, a new and rather unusual extrasolar planet. Its orbital motion appears to be synchronous with the period of...
News Sciences InstitutionalMay 21, 2008
