News and Events
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Sea-level charting satellite passes with flying...
The Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite has also been put through a series of strenuous tests leaving the eyes of the teams involved in this international mission...
News ObservationJuly 21, 2020 -
The Euclid space telescope is coming together
ESA’s Euclid mission has reached another milestone on its journey towards launch. Its two instruments are now built and fully tested. These have been delivered to Airbus Defence...
News SciencesJuly 16, 2020 -
NASA Announces New James Webb Space Telescope...
NASA now is targeting Oct. 31, 2021, for the launch of the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope from French Guiana, due to impacts from the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic...
News SciencesJuly 16, 2020 -
Satellites track unusual Saharan dust plume
Every summer, the wind carries large amounts of desert dust particles from the hot and dry Sahara Desert in northern Africa across the Atlantic Ocean. Data from the Copernicus...
News ObservationJuly 16, 2020 -
ESA RELEASES FIRST IMAGES FROM SOLAR ORBITER
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the first images from its Solar Orbiter spacecraft, which completed its commissioning phase in mid-June and made its first close...
SciencesJuly 16, 2020 -
ANGELS, the first French commercial nanosatellite...
TelecommunicationsJuly 9, 2020 -
Flight over Korolev Crater on Mars
This movie, based on images taken by ESA’s Mars Express, showcases the 82 km wide Korolev crater on Mars.
News SciencesJuly 2, 2020 -
PERSEVERANCE ROVER - ALL SET TO LIFT-OFF FOR MARS
Tuesday 30 June, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Antoine Petit, Chairman & CEO of CNRS, the French national scientific research centre, gave a joint briefing about NASA’s...
SciencesJune 30, 2020 -
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 -
XMM-Newton spies youngest baby pulsar ever...
An observation campaign led by ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory reveals the youngest pulsar ever seen that is also a ‘magnetar’, sporting a magnetic field some 70 quadrillion...
News SciencesJune 17, 2020 -
Citizen scientist discovers Sun-watcher SOHO’s...
Using data from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, a European citizen scientist spotted a never-before-seen comet in the satellite data — the 4,000th comet...
News SciencesJune 17, 2020 -
ExoMars spots unique green glow at the Red Planet
ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected glowing green oxygen in Mars’ atmosphere – the first time that this emission has been seen around a planet other than Earth.
News SciencesJune 16, 2020 -
Solar Orbiter makes first close approach to the...
ESA’s Sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter has made its first close approach to the star on June 15, getting as close as 77 million kilometres to its surface, about half the...
News SciencesJune 15, 2020 -
ESA moves ahead on low-cost reusable rocket engine
ESA’s Prometheus is the precursor of ultra-low-cost rocket propulsion that is flexible enough to fit a fleet of new launch vehicles for any mission and will be potentially...
News SciencesJune 4, 2020 -
This year deadlines
Each year, CNES contacts scientists, industry or students for various contributions. Find here this year deadlines
News Observation, SciencesMay 29, 2020 -
Solar Orbiter to pass through the tails of Comet...
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will cross through the tails of Comet ATLAS during the next few days. Although the recently launched spacecraft was not due to be taking science data at this...
News SciencesMay 29, 2020 -
GALILEO GREEN LANE APPLICATION REDUCING TRANSIT...
Institutional affairsMay 29, 2020 -
One step closer into the heart of the X-IFU
A new video about the spectrometer X-IFU (X-ray Integral Field Unit) is now available. You will discover the heart of the instrument: its X-ray detection chain.
News SciencesMay 28, 2020