News and Events
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First data received from Parker Solar Probe
Parker Solar Probe just sent its first data and showed that each of the instruments is working well.
News SciencesSeptember 27, 2018 -
EarthExplorer : Three ideas selected by ESA
Three mission ideas should be selected by ESA for feasibility study: Stereoid, Daedalus and G-Class.
News SciencesSeptember 24, 2018 -
CNES’s Science Programmes Committee meets - Le...
Thursday 20 September, CNES’s Science Programmes Committee (CPS) met at the agency’s Head Office in Paris. The CPS advises the CNES Board of Directors on matters relating to space...
Institutional affairsSeptember 20, 2018 -
Saturn’s north polar hexagon
Analysis of data from the Cassini probe has revealed that a vortex towering more than 300 kilometres above Saturn’s north pole mirrors the famous hexagon cloud pattern observed...
News SciencesSeptember 19, 2018 -
Aeolus wows with first wind data
Just one week after its launch ESA's Aeolus satellite has exceeded all expectations by delivering its first data on wind – a truly remarkable feat so early in its life in...
News ObservationSeptember 13, 2018 -
Mascot prepared from the ground
Between 6 and 14 July, the CNES and DLR teams worked on the Mascot instrument preparation from the Mascot control centre at the DLR in Cologne.
News SciencesAugust 30, 2018 -
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx begins Asteroid Operations...
After an almost two-year journey, NASA’s asteroid sampling spacecraft, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx),...
News SciencesAugust 27, 2018 -
MA-9: MASCOT’s landing site on asteroid Ryugu
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced today near Tokyo the three landing sites selected for the Hayabusa2 mission, whose small French-German MASCOT surface scout...
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyAugust 23, 2018 -
Earthquakes detection from space is now possible
The detection of earthquakes takes on a new dimension: it becomes possible to detect seismic waves by observing the vibrations they cause in the upper atmosphere. This has been...
News SciencesAugust 17, 2018 -
Pluto is covered with unexpected dunes of methane...
The American spacecraft New Horizons discovered dunes made of methane ice on the dwarf planet Pluto. Unexpected finding since it took winds to carve them and that Pluto has...
News SciencesAugust 17, 2018 -
A new tool to monitor the carbon budget from space
An international study carried out by the European satellite SMOS now makes it possible to monitor the carbon budget of vegetation with a first application to the African...
News ObservationAugust 17, 2018 -
Choosing landing site for MASCOT proves “a real...
At CNES in Toulouse, the scientists and engineers working on the Hayabusa2/MASCOT mission have finished identifying and ranking 10 possible landing sites for MASCOT on Ryugu. No...
News Sciences Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyAugust 14, 2018 -
French Earth-observation satellites prove pivotal...
ObservationAugust 10, 2018 -
Parker Solar Probe : French research takes off...
SciencesAugust 9, 2018 -
Exploration of asteroid Ryugu by Hayabusa2 -...
SciencesAugust 7, 2018 -
Four new Galileo satellites positioned - CNES...
TelecommunicationsAugust 6, 2018 -
Planck: final data from the mission lends strong...
SciencesJuly 17, 2018 -
42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Nanosatellites...
Other fieldJuly 16, 2018