News and Events
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66th straight success for Ariane 5
Wednesday 15 July, Ariane 5 completed a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre, orbiting two satellites, Star One C4 for telecommunications operator...
ArianeJuly 15, 2015 -
Research and Technology
The technical politicy led by the CNES has for objective to anticipate the future technical needs and to ensure the development as well regarding launchers as regarding orbital...
News Observation, Sciences Specialist public, Science and technologyJune 25, 2015 -
Rosetta mission extended 9 months
ESA has confirmed the extension of the Rosetta mission for 9 months until September 2016. The orbiter’s trajectory could also be altered to set it down on the surface of comet 67P...
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyJune 23, 2015 -
Press Release: Vega launches successfully on...
Monday 22 June, Vega accomplished a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) on its fifth successful mission since its maiden flight in 2012,...
News Observation Specialist public, Science and technologyJune 23, 2015 -
Vega launches successfully on fifth flight from...
Monday 22 June, Vega accomplished a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) on its fifth successful mission since its maiden flight in 2012,...
ArianeJune 23, 2015 -
“We need Philae to learn more about the origins...
Francis Rocard, in charge of solar system exploration programmes at CNES, reacts to the news that contact has been regained with Philae.
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Press, Science and technologyJune 18, 2015 -
“I was the lucky one to see Philae wake up on my...
Philippe Gaudon, Rosetta mission project leader at CNES, tells us how he saw Philae wake up on his laptop screen on the evening of Saturday 13 June...
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyJune 16, 2015 -
Philae phones home
After 211 days of radio silence, a signal from Philae was received on Earth on Saturday 13 June at 22:28 CET. According to Stephan Ulamec, Philae Project Manager at the German...
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyJune 15, 2015 -
We’ve found Philae!
After months of searching, the teams at the LAM astrophysics laboratory in Marseilles and the SONC (Science Operations and Navigation Centre) in Toulouse, working with scientists...
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyJune 11, 2015 -
Successful launch for Ariane 5 on 27 May 2015 !
A new Ariane 5 ECA model orbited 2 telecommunications satellites on wednesday 27 May 2015 from the Guiana Space Centre: DirectTV-15 and SKY México-1. The launcher lifted off at 18...
News, Event, Video Ariane General public, Institutional, Youth, Specialist public, Politicians and decision makers, Teachers and educators, Companies, Press, Science and technologyMay 27, 2015 -
« XMM-Newton » catalog, fifth edition !
The European satellite XMM-Newton, launched in 1999, offers to the scientists a 5th version of its catalog and a sky map, more precise than never, celestial bodies and events of...
News Sciences Specialist public, Science and technologyMay 6, 2015 -
Press Release: CNES and Israel Space Agency (ISA...
Wednesday 1 April, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall was in Tel Aviv to meet Menachem Kidron, Director General of the Israel Space Agency (ISA). Their meeting provided the...
News ObservationApril 1, 2015 -
OSIRIS 11-cm-resolution pictures reveal comet in...
During its St Valentine’s Day flyby passing just 6 km from comet 67P’s nucleus, Rosetta’s OSIRIS-NAC narrow angle camera obtained an image with a pixel resolution of 11 cm showing...
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyMarch 3, 2015 -
Press Release: Meeting of CNES Board of Directors...
Meeting today for the first time in 2014, the CNES Board of Directors reached decisions on the next phases of the SWOT and CERES programmes. The Board also examined the Agency...
News Observation, DefenceMarch 31, 2014 -
Press Release: CNES and NASA set to go to Mars...
CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden signed an agreement in Washington D.C. Monday 10 February formalizing cooperation between CNES and NASA...
News SciencesFebruary 11, 2014 -
Press Release: NASA Administrator Charles F....
Charles F. Bolden, Administrator of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), met CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall today at CNES head office in Paris. The two...
News SciencesJanuary 28, 2014 -
Press Release: CNES' SPOT world Heritage...
At the plenary session of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday 17 January 2014, France announced it is offering SPOT satellite archive imagery...
News ObservationJanuary 23, 2014 -
New XMM-Newton catalogue released
The third catalogue of data from the European XMM-Newton satellite, launched in 1999, is now available to scientists along with a more precise map than ever of stars and other...
News Sciences InstitutionalAugust 1, 2013