News and Events
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CNES and AEB at Le Bourget Paris Air Show
Signature of the letter of intent dedicated to the establishment of an intertropical launching base in Brazil for stratospheric balloons
Other fieldJune 21, 2023 -
Around the world in eight balloons with Strateole...
Strateole-2 is a French-US project supported by ESA that uses CNES superpressure balloons drifting around the globe to study the climate processes in the Tropical Tropopause Layer...
News ObservationJune 26, 2020 -
Timmins 2019, start of Strato-Science 2019...
SciencesAugust 28, 2019 -
STRATEOLE-2: the LOAC particle counter joins the...
In early February, the LOAC particle counter was delivered to the integration and test platform in Guyancourt. Its integration for the flying balloons Strateole-2 project took...
News ObservationJune 19, 2018 -
The first Strateole-2 gondola ready to perform...
The SAWfPHY, B-Bop and LOAC instruments loaded in the ZEPHYR gondola arrived for integration. These instruments will respectively perform measurements of water vapour, ozone and...
News ObservationMarch 25, 2018 -
The SAWfPHY hygrometer integrated in the ZEPHYR...
On 18 January, Guyancourt's integration and testing platform began assembling the first scientific instrument in the gondola for the STRATEOLE-22 project. The SAWfPHY...
News ObservationMarch 25, 2018 -
ROC2, the GPS atmospheric sounder delivered to...
The first instrument on board the ZEPHYR gondola was delivered to the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory in autumn 2017.
News ObservationMarch 25, 2018 -
EUSO-SPB set down in the Pacific Ocean after over...
The second EUSO-Balloon flight landed on 7th May around 3.20 am UT.
News SciencesMay 12, 2017 -
Successful launch of NASA’s EUSO-SPB balloon
The EUSO-SPB balloon has taken off from Wanaka Airport in New Zealand to observe ultra-high energy cosmic rays
News SciencesApril 26, 2017 -
France-Australia space cooperation - Successful...
CNES has completed the three stratospheric balloon flights of its Austral 2017 campaign without a hitch, yielding a rich harvest of precious science data on climate, astronomy and...
Institutional affairs , Other fieldApril 17, 2017 -
CNES stratospheric balloons. Three major flight...
Three major stratospheric science balloon campaigns are planned this year to fly novel astrophysics experiments in the field of Universe science. CNES and French research...
Observation, SciencesMarch 29, 2017