News and Events
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France-Russia space cooperation CNES and...
CNES and Roscosmos have signed an agreement concerning the PHEBUS ultraviolet spectrometer designed to study Mercury’s exosphere as part of the science payload on the Mercury...
ObservationFebruary 15, 2017 -
77th straight success for Ariane 5
Ariane 5 completed a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre, orbiting two telecommunications satellites, SKY Brasil-1 for operator AT&T/DIRECTV and...
ArianeFebruary 14, 2017 -
Next Ariane 5 mission set to launch SKY Brasil-1...
Tuesday 14 February, Ariane 5 will lift off from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, to place two new telecommunications satellites into orbit: SKY Brasil...
ArianeFebruary 9, 2017 -
CNES Innovation Day Pursuing the digital...
Year after year, the strategic importance of innovation for the space sector’s future is becoming ever clearer in an increasingly competitive global arena. CNES’s Innovation Day...
Observation, Sciences, Telecommunications, DefenceFebruary 2, 2017 -
Forest fires in Chile CNES activates SPOT...
Chile has been suffering in recent weeks from a series of devastating forest fires. The SPOT satellites have been in action acquiring imagery of fire-affected areas for the...
Observation, TelecommunicationsFebruary 1, 2017 -
France-Israel space cooperation CNES at the 12th...
CNES and IAF President Jean-Yves Le Gall was at the 12th Ilan Ramon Conference in Herzliya, Israel, on Sunday 29 and Monday 30 January, on the theme “Bringing Space Down To Earth...
Institutional affairsJanuary 30, 2017 -
Soyuz launches Hispasat 36W-1 satellite from the...
Friday 27 January, Soyuz accomplished a flawless launch from the Guiana Space Centre, Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, orbiting the Hispasat 36W-1 telecommunications satellite for...
ArianeJanuary 28, 2017 -
Next Soyuz mission from CSG to orbit Hispasat 36W...
Friday 27 January, Soyuz will lift off from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana carrying the Hispasat 36W-1 satellite built by OHB System AG in Bremen, Germany, for Spanish...
ArianeJanuary 25, 2017 -
Perseus seminar 2017
This seminar will take place on 26 and 27 of January 2017 at the Novotel in Massy-Palaiseau.
News ArianeJanuary 5, 2017 -
Green light to build NISP instrument!
The infrared spectro-photometer of Euclid mission successfully passed its critical design review (CDR).
News SciencesNovember 23, 2016 -
Press Release: Readying for the UNISPACE+50...
The first High-Level Forum on ‘Space as a driver for socio-economic sustainable development’, organized by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) in the run-up...
News ObservationNovember 22, 2016 -
Press Release: International Symposium Comets in...
The international symposium on ‘Comets: A New Vision after Rosetta-Philae’ is being held from Monday 14 to Friday 18 November at the Musée des Abattoirs in Toulouse, organized by...
News SciencesNovember 15, 2016 -
ExoMars: Schiaparelli spotted by MRO
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has identified markings probably left by the impact of the Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing technology demonstrator module on the...
News SciencesOctober 25, 2016 -
CNES post-doctoral research scientist Audrey...
“I’m from Alsace in Northeast France and a keen mountaineer, so I wasn’t really pre-destined for studying the ocean!” says Audrey Hasson with a smile. On 12 October, the young...
News SciencesOctober 20, 2016 -
Press Release: CNES’s DECLIC instrument en route...
First launched in 2009, the DECLIC scientific instrument was recovered and returned to Earth by NASA in 2014 after a five-year stay on the International Space Station (ISS) for...
News SciencesOctober 20, 2016 -
Press Release: France-United Kingdom space...
Thursday 6 October in London, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall met Katherine Courtney, the Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA), at the Department for...
News ObservationOctober 17, 2016 -
JWST France workshop at IAP on November 8, 9 and...
Following the JWST-France workshop that took place on May 27, 2016 in CNES Paris, and to pursue the preparation of the community to these different calls, 3 themed workshops and 1...
News, Event SciencesOctober 14, 2016 -
Press Release: France-India space cooperation -...
Thursday 6 October, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and AS Kiran Kumar, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), signed at CNES’s Head Office in Paris a four-...
News ObservationOctober 10, 2016