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CNES Science Programmes Committee meets -...
Tuesday 11 June, CNES’s Science Programmes Committee (CPS) met at the agency’s Head Office in Paris Les Halles. The CPS advises the CNES Board of Directors on matters relating to...
Other fieldJune 11, 2019 -
A unique experiment to explore black holes
What happens when two supermassive black holes collide? Combining the observing power of two future ESA missions, Athena and LISA, would allow us to study these cosmic clashes and...
News SciencesJune 5, 2019 -
SWARM helps explain Earth’s magnetic jerks
Known since 40 years, these fast variations of the Earth's magnetic field find a first explanation thanks to the three satellites.
News SciencesMay 15, 2019 -
Gaia discovers 3 new asteroids
In December 2018, ESA's Gaia satellite detected three unknown asteroids, authentified by Paris and Côte d'Azur Observatories.
News SciencesMay 9, 2019 -
MAVEN Used Mars’ Atmosphere to reach it’s final...
Maven used aerobreaking to tighten it’s orbit to act as a telecommunications relay.
News SciencesApril 25, 2019 -
World first French SEIS instrument detects ‘...
SciencesApril 23, 2019 -
BepiColombo is ready to study Mercury
After 5 months of testing during its long cruise to Mercury, European and Japanese teams concluded that the probe was ready for its mission.
News SciencesApril 23, 2019 -
System validation tests for Solar Orbiter
System validation tests are currently held by the Solar Orbiter mission control team in Germany. It will be launched in February 2020.
News SciencesApril 8, 2019 -
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News Ariane, Observation, Sciences, Telecommunications, DefenceApril 3, 2019 -
CNES Projects Library
The BPC puts at your disposal elements concerning the various CNES projects: launchers, science, observation, telecoms, navigation, defence. You can sort them alphabetically, by...
News Ariane, Observation, Sciences, Telecommunications, DefenceApril 3, 2019 -
EntrySat all set for launch First CubeSat...
The ISAE-SUPAERO aeronautics and space institute, supported by CNES’s JANUS student nanosatellite programme and in partnership with the French national aerospace research ONERA,...
SciencesApril 1, 2019 -
France-India space cooperation, first Argos4...
ObservationMarch 20, 2019 -
This is the end for Opportunity
After amost 15 years on Mars, 45 kilometers traveled and 8 months of recovery strategy, NASA has declared the end of Opportunity.
News SciencesMarch 7, 2019 -
New test facility for Ariane 6
The upper stage and its Vinci motor will be tested at the new P5.2 in Lampoldshausen in early 2020
News ArianeMarch 6, 2019 -
Aladin flies under a plane
To calibrate Aeolus, a copy of its Aladin instrument is loaded under a plane: it follows the trajectory of the satellite and compares its mesures of the wind with a reference...
News ObservationMarch 6, 2019 -
CNES Science Programmes Committee meets,string of...
Institutional affairsFebruary 28, 2019 -
France-Japan space cooperation, Hayabusa2...
SciencesFebruary 27, 2019 -
Four new Galileo satellites in operational...
TelecommunicationsFebruary 13, 2019