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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GEIPAN UAP investigation unit opens its files
After 30 years of collating sightings and field investigations, GEIPAN*, the French unit responsible for researching and investigating unidentified aerospace phenomena (UAPs), is...
News InstitutionalMarch 26, 2007 -
Parasol in the eye of the storm
Late February, Cyclone Gamede brushed past Réunion, leaving 2 dead, 100 injured and more than 100 million euros in damage. CNES’s Parasol cloud- and aerosol-observing satellite...
News Observation InstitutionalFebruary 27, 2007 -
Spirit of Gagarin hovers over French Guiana as...
A symbolic and important milestone has been reached on the road to the arrival of the mythical Russian Soyuz launcher in French Guiana. Numerous VIPs and representatives from CNES...
News InstitutionalFebruary 27, 2007 -
COROT’s Christmas gift to CNES teams
The French COROT satellite soared aloft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, today, leaving a 100-metre-long column of flames in its trail on the way to explore new worlds.
News Sciences InstitutionalDecember 28, 2006 -
COROT science observations underway
After stabilizing the boresight in fine-pointing mode, using the instrument as a super star tracker, teams at CNES and French national scientific research centre CNRS have...
News Sciences InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
"Voyageurs des sables" Six high-school...
Guided by explorer Stéphane Lévin, a unique and demanding adventure awaits the 6 high-school pupils selected for the “Sand Travellers” (Voyageurs des Sables) expedition. With just...
News InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
Tech for Food
How can new technologies aid agricultural development in the world’s southern nations? This is just one of the questions that will be aired during the Tech for Food international...
News InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
Rosetta successfully swings by Mars
After swinging by Mars at an altitude of 250 km Sunday morning, Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft is now on track to continue its long journey to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which it...
News InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
Monitoring malaria in NigerAn effective field tool
Following trials conducted for the Space Surveillance for Epidemics (S2E) Argos project, 44 Argos transmitters have been deployed at dispensaries throughout Niger. The objective...
News InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
Léopold Eyharts will bring Columbus to life
A former test pilot and an astronaut since 1990, Léopold Eyharts is now training for his 2nd spaceflight, on the STS-122 mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle Discovery in October,...
News InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
COROT all set to begin science mission
After opening its protective cap and acquiring its 1st image 2 weeks ago, COROT is now in fine-pointing mode, the last crucial step before it starts returning science data.
News Sciences InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
The human odyssey revisited by space technology
What did the different branches of our distant hominid cousins have in common? To answer this question, 2 fossil skulls were scanned on 20 February by a machine called XtremeCT,...
News InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
Titan’s north pole is surrounded by lakes
Scientists have reported evidence of lakes dotted around Titan’s northern hemisphere. Radar imagery obtained by the Cassini spacecraft on 22 July 2006 revealed dark patches less...
News Sciences InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
Wind, sand and happy memories...
Just back from their 2-week expedition to the Sahara, the “sand travellers” tell their story.
News InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
CNES and the International Polar Year
2007 marks the start of the 4th International Polar Year, officially launched yesterday at the Palais de la Découverte in Paris. The last polar year was in 1957, so this one will...
News Observation InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
Parasol paints a striking picture of Hurricane...
The first satellite image of Dean on 16 August in natural colour gives a good idea of the hurricane’s extent, but not its depth. It also highlights variations in cloud cover...
News Observation InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
A studious start to the year for COROT
After a flawless launch on 27 December, COROT, CNES’s planet-hunting satellite, is now undergoing a series of tests in darkness to make sure it is acclimatizing well to its new...
News Sciences InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
COROT discovers its first exoplanet!
It’s called CoRoT-Exo-1b, spans a diameter of between 200,000 and 250,000 km and completes an orbit of its parent star in just 1½ days. But for the engineers and scientists...
News Sciences InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006
