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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Jason-2 takes to the air
Since 1992, altimetry satellites have significantly enhanced our knowledge of the world’s oceans. The Jason-2 satellite is all set to take over the ocean-observing mission of its...
News InstitutionalMay 7, 2008 -
EPM on Columbus working like a charm
The human physiology experiment module on the Columbus orbital laboratory was successfully activated Saturday by Léopold Eyharts. This is good news for the CADMOS facility in...
News Other field InstitutionalFebruary 26, 2008 -
ATV campaign at Guiana Space Centre draws to a...
With just 2 weeks to go to the 1st flight of the ATV—Europe’s 1st uncrewed cargo vehicle designed to resupply the International Space Station (ISS)—from the Guiana Space Centre (...
News InstitutionalFebruary 25, 2008 -
Jules Verne embarks on an extraordinary journey
Sunday 9 March, on its 37th launch—the first in its ES-ATV configuration—Ariane 5 successfully placed the European Jules Verne ATV into elliptical Earth orbit. In 3 weeks’ time,...
News InstitutionalFebruary 25, 2008 -
Exobiology: from the Cosmos to the laboratory
After 12 days in orbit, the Foton capsule landed back on Earth in Kazakhstan 26 September with its 43 scientific experiments intact. French exobiologists have since started...
News InstitutionalDecember 6, 2007 -
Launch no earlier than 2 January for Columbus...
The European Columbus laboratory will have to wait at least 1 more month before launching to the ISS. Sunday 9 December, a persistent malfunction of a sensor in the external fuel...
News InstitutionalDecember 4, 2007 -
Emergesat debuts with Darfur refugees
The Emergesat humanitarian relief container was dispatched last week on its 1st operational mission to Chad, where it will be used for at least 3 months at a camp for Darfur...
News InstitutionalNovember 19, 2007 -
A new crisis management tool to aid Darfur...
After several months of tests, the Emergesat humanitarian relief container recently departed for Chad on its 1st mission to establish high-data-rate communications links and...
News InstitutionalNovember 19, 2007 -
Columbus soon to enter service
6 December, the U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis is set to lift off for the International Space Station (ISS) with a new key element of the giant orbital Meccano set: the European...
News Other field InstitutionalOctober 24, 2007 -
ATV - the European ISS resupply ship
The Jules Verne, the first of Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicles designed to ferry supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), arrived at the Guiana Space Centre in...
News InstitutionalAugust 3, 2007 -
Controlling the ATV from Toulouse
The ATV Jules Verne, the 1st of Europe’s transfer vehicles that will ferry supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), is set to make its maiden flight on 14 February 2008...
News InstitutionalAugust 3, 2007 -
Jules Verne ATV mission on the starting blocks
After a 12-day voyage across the Atlantic, the Jules Verne ATV*—the first fully automatic uncrewed cargo vessel built in Europe—has arrived safely at the Guyana Space Centre (CSG...
News InstitutionalAugust 3, 2007 -
Ultralight structures set to sail away in 2010.
A good idea is one thing, actually applying it is another. A technology first imagined in the 1960s to build ultralight structures has now reached maturity and is set to fly in...
News InstitutionalJune 27, 2007 -
Calisph’Air/Science Travellers project has the...
From the sands of Morocco to city suburbs, passing through the foothills of the Pyrenees on the way, hundreds of pupils have joined together in the Calisph’Air/Science Travellers...
News InstitutionalJune 27, 2007 -
Ultralight structures set to sail away in 2010 -...
In 2011, after it has completed its mission to investigate the equivalence principle, the Microscope satellite will become another spent piece of space debris in an already...
News InstitutionalJune 27, 2007 -
Calisph’Air/Science Travellers - Making science...
On 4 June, 150 programme participants met in Toulouse, France, to present their results. Another 200 fellow pupils also took part via a teleconference link-up.
News InstitutionalJune 27, 2007 -
Columbus - a laboratory equipped for science
The U.S. space shuttle is all set to deliver the European Columbus science module to the International Space Station (ISS) in December. A quick look inside the most modern...
News Other field InstitutionalMarch 28, 2007 -
2 months to go for Léopold Eyharts
At the age of 50, Léopold Eyharts is readying for his second spaceflight. 6 December, he will embark on the U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis for a flight to the International Space...
News InstitutionalMarch 28, 2007
