News and Events
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81st straight success for Ariane 5
Friday 29 September 2017, Ariane 5 completed a flawless mission following its launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), orbiting two new telecommunications...
ArianeSeptember 30, 2017 -
Mars exploration. CNES tasks 500,000th firing of...
Institutional affairsSeptember 20, 2017 -
CNES at the 3rd COSPAR Symposium. “Small...
Observation, Sciences, Telecommunications, Institutional affairsSeptember 18, 2017 -
Cassini’s ‘Grand Finale’ at Saturn. Mission ends...
Observation, SciencesSeptember 16, 2017 -
CNES’s Science Programmes Committee meets
CNES’s Science Programmes Committee (CPS) convened at the agency’s Head Office in Paris on Thursday 14 September. The CPS advises the CNES Board of Directors on matters relating...
Institutional affairsSeptember 15, 2017 -
Grand Finale - Cassini bids farewell
15 September 2017 will mark the end of the Cassini mission, after 13 years exploring the Saturn system. With its fuel fast running out, the spacecraft will plunge into the gas...
News SciencesSeptember 14, 2017 -
Huygens - Landing on Titan
In December 2004, the U.S. Cassini spacecraft released the European Huygens module for the most-distant landing yet accomplished in the history of space exploration. Titan, Saturn...
News SciencesSeptember 11, 2017 -
Cassini - Exploring beneath Enceladus’ icy crust
Besides studying Saturn and its rings, a good deal of the Cassini mission focused on the planet’s moons. Among those where the most discoveries have been made is Enceladus, an icy...
News SciencesSeptember 8, 2017 -
France-United States space cooperation - CNES,...
High-precision satellite altimetry to improve our understanding of the oceans and their role in climate change dates back to 1992. For it was then that the TOPEX/Poseidon...
Other fieldSeptember 8, 2017 -
Hurricane Irma in the Eastern Caribbean: CNES...
Hurricane Irma has been ripping through the Eastern Caribbean since Tuesday 5 September. Classed as a Category 5, it has so far hit Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Barthélemy, Saint...
ObservationSeptember 7, 2017 -
Cassini: Destination Moons
In the space of 13 years, Cassini observed Saturn and devoted a lot of attention to its moons. With the mission now about to end, Patrick Michel, astrophysicist, planetologist and...
News SciencesSeptember 6, 2017 -
Saturn’s rings through the eyes of Cassini
As well as studying Saturn and its moons, Cassini also trained its sights on the planet’s rings, analysing their composition, structure and dynamics to learn more about the...
News SciencesSeptember 4, 2017 -
Cassini’s Saturnian legacy
Since entering orbit around Saturn in July 2004, the Cassini spacecraft has studied the planet and its moons from every angle. Before its dramatic dive into the gas giant’s...
News SciencesSeptember 1, 2017 -
Next Ariane 5 mission set to launch Intelsat 37e...
Tuesday 5 September 2017, Ariane 5 will lift off from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, to place two telecommunications satellites into orbit: Intelsat...
ArianeSeptember 1, 2017 -
CNES Launch Vehicles Directorate adapts...
Ariane, Institutional affairsAugust 31, 2017 -
Cassini-Huygens: a 30-year space odyssey
Cassini-Huygens is a joint NASA-ESA mission to Saturn and its moons. As the mission prepares to take its curtain call, Christophe Sotin, Chief Scientist, Solar System Exploration...
News SciencesAugust 30, 2017 -
France-Israel space cooperation - Venus...
A few days after being placed into orbit, the French-Israeli Venµs vegetation-monitoring satellite delivered its first images, offering a glimpse of the kind of data it is set to...
ObservationAugust 23, 2017 -
France-United States space cooperation CNES and...
Thursday 10 August, CNES was with NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena to mark the 25th anniversary of the launch by Ariane of the TOPEX/Poseidon ocean...
ObservationAugust 11, 2017