News and Events
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Press Release: Next Ariane 5 mission set to...
Wednesday 5 October, 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...
News ArianeSeptember 30, 2016 -
Press Release: So long, Rosetta!
All good things must come to an end, including space missions… Rosetta, Europe’s favourite space mission that has been making headlines since 2004, bowed out today in a moment of...
News SciencesSeptember 30, 2016 -
Press Release: CNES ONERA cooperation First ultra...
In orbit since April, Microscope (MICROSatellite à trainée Compensée pour l’Observation du Principe d’Équivalence) is pursuing functional tests before its scheduled switch to...
News SciencesSeptember 29, 2016 -
DECLIC takes a maintenance break to repair its...
After 6 years of loyal service, DECLIC had to undergo maintenance.
News SciencesSeptember 22, 2016 -
Press Release: CNES’s Science Programmes...
CNES’s Science Programmes Committee (CPS) met on Wednesday 21 September at the agency’s Head Office in Paris Les Halles. The committee’s chief purpose is to advise the CNES Board...
News SciencesSeptember 22, 2016 -
Rosetta severs link with Philae
The Electrical Support System (ESS) through which the Rosetta orbiter has been listening out for Philae will be turned off Wednesday 27 July at 11 a.m. CEST. The remaining supply...
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyJuly 27, 2016 -
Hitomi reveals its legacy
The SXS spectrometer has had time to peer into the Perseus cluster before Hitomi’s demise.
News SciencesJuly 25, 2016 -
Release of the CoRoT legacy data
The CoRoT team has recently released the mission full science data set.
News SciencesJuly 18, 2016 -
CNES awards €200-million contract for Ariane 6...
CNES has awarded to Eclair6, the consortium led by Eiffage, formed by Eiffage Civil Engineering (lead contractor), Eiffage Roads, Clemessy (a subsidiary of the Eiffage Group’s...
ArianeJuly 8, 2016 -
Can we “see” the mountains through the clouds of...
A surprising discovery has partially lifted the veil on Venus’ relief.
News SciencesJune 20, 2016 -
Ariane 5 launch on 17 June 2016
The heavy launcher orbited two Communications Satellites: BRIsat and Echostar XVIII from French Guiana.
News, Event Ariane General public, InstitutionalJune 16, 2016 -
Press Release: France-United States space...
CNES and its partners, NASA and participating laboratories celebrated yesterday the 10th anniversary of the CALIPSO mission, a marvellous symbol of the successful space...
News ObservationJune 14, 2016 -
Kick-off of the optical instrument development
CNES selected Airbus Defence and Space to build the optical instrument for MicroCarb to map CO2 levels
News ObservationMay 31, 2016 -
Successful mechanical tests of the NISP instrument
The mechanical tests of the NISP instrument structural model (Near Infrared Spectrometer Photometer) took place at the CSL (Centre Spatial de Liège, Belgium) from April 18th to...
News SciencesMay 23, 2016 -
Key compound of the origin of life formed in...
Researchers have shown for the first time that ribose, a sugar that is one of the building blocks of genetic material in living organisms, may have formed in cometary ices.
News SciencesApril 8, 2016 -
The incredible journey of PSS!
The Soyuz capsule which landed in Kazakhstan on March 2, 2016, brought back 3 astronauts to Earth. Among them, Scott Kelly broke the spaceflight record by living 342 days (and 520...
News SciencesApril 1, 2016 -
NASA Targets May 2018 Launch of Mars InSight...
NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission to study the deep interior of Mars is targeting a new launch window that...
News SciencesMarch 9, 2016 -
Interested in Doctoral and post-doctoral space...
#askCNES - CNES to answer questions on its doctoral and post-doctoral research programme on Wednesday 9 March from 9:30 to 12:00 a.m.
News Observation, Sciences InstitutionalMarch 7, 2016