News and Events
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[Replay] Ariane 5 launch VA247 on February 5, 2019
Ariane 5 orbited two telecommunications satellites from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou. Liftoff happened on Tuesday February 5, 2019 at 18:01 (Kourou time), 22:01 (Paris time).
News Ariane General public, InstitutionalFebruary 5, 2019 -
French SEIS seismometer safe and tight under...
SciencesFebruary 4, 2019 -
Continued high precision measurements of Earth’s...
ObservationJanuary 21, 2019 -
CNES and VEDECOM sign partnership agreement Space...
Monday 14 January at the agency’s Head Office in Paris, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and VEDECOM President Rémi Bastien signed a partnership agreement aiming to foster...
Institutional affairsJanuary 14, 2019 -
World first - French SEIS seismometer up and...
The InSight mission’s SEIS seismometer, deployed on the surface of Mars by a robotic arm on 19 December 2018, was successfully tested out on 1st January.
SciencesJanuary 9, 2019 -
French SEIS seismometer deployed on Mars
InSight has successfully set down the SEIS seismometer (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure) on the surface of the red planet. While this operation only took 45 minutes,...
SciencesDecember 20, 2018 -
IASI pinpoints 248 ammonia emission hotspots
By analysing measurements from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI), a French-Belgian team has compiled the first global map of ammonia emissions with a...
News Observation Specialist public, Science and technologyDecember 20, 2018 -
[Replay] Soyuz launch VS20 (CSO-1) on December 19...
Soyuz rocket orbited CSO-1 satellite from our French Guiana Space Center on December 19, 2018. Launch initialy scheduled on December 18, 2018 had been postponed by 24 hours due to...
News, Event Defence General public, InstitutionalDecember 19, 2018 -
Metop-C’s IASI instrument delivers first spectrum
ObservationDecember 13, 2018 -
CNES and NEXEYA’S ANGELS nanosatellite on course...
CNES and NEXEYA, who are co-funding and developing ANGELS (Argos Neo on a Generic Economical and Light Satellite), the first series-produced French nanosatellite, have reached a...
ObservationDecember 13, 2018 -
France-United States space cooperation - French...
Teams at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have begun checking out InSight on Mars after the excitement and tension of its successful landing on Monday...
SciencesDecember 10, 2018 -
France-United States space cooperation - InSight...
After the excitement and tension of its successful landing on Mars on Monday 26 November, InSight has started powering up and checking out its subsystems. The SEIS1 seismometer,...
SciencesDecember 5, 2018 -
Jezero Crater: Landing Site for Mars 2020 Rover
NASA has chosen Jezero Crater as the landing site for its upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission after a five-year search, during which details of more than 60 candidate locations on...
News SciencesDecember 4, 2018 -
OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft arrives at Asteroid Bennu
Now, at about 11.8 miles (19 kilometers) from Bennu’s Sun-facing surface, OSIRIS-REx will begin a preliminary survey of the asteroid. The spacecraft will commence flyovers of...
News SciencesDecember 4, 2018 -
France-United States space cooperation - French...
Monday 26 November at 20:54 CET, InSight (INterior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) landed on Mars with the French SEIS seismometer (Seismic...
SciencesNovember 27, 2018 -
What do we know about Mars’ interior?
The first missions to reach the surface of Mars date back 40 years, but many mysteries still lie beneath its top layer of iron oxide. To delve deeper into the red planet, the...
News SciencesNovember 26, 2018 -
Oxia Planum is recommanded as landing site for...
The proposal will be reviewed internally by ESA and Roscosmos with an official confirmation expected mid-2019.
News SciencesNovember 23, 2018 -
Vega makes 13th successful launch orbits MOHAMMED...
ArianeNovember 21, 2018