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CNES SCIENCE PROGRAMMES COMMITTEE MEETS
Thursday 3 December, CNES’s Science Programmes Committee (CPS) met remotely by videoconference in strict accordance with social distancing measures. The CPS advises the CNES Board...
Institutional affairsDecember 3, 2020 -
Rollercoaster research landed, next flight: Moon...
In November, over 60 researchers ran 11 experiments in an Airbus aircraft with no less than three pilots. This was no ordinary flight: the A310 'Air Zero G' flew in...
News SciencesNovember 26, 2020 -
PHILIPPE LOGNONNÉ AND SYLVESTRE MAURICE,...
Institutional affairsNovember 24, 2020 -
SENTINEL-6 MICHAEL FREILICH CNES CENTRAL TO SEA-...
The Copernicus constellation’s Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, orbited Saturday 21 November, is the first of two twin satellites set to acquire vital measurements of rising...
ObservationNovember 23, 2020 -
New Copernicus satellite to monitor sea-level...
The Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite has been launched into orbit around Earth. Using the latest radar altimetry technology, this new satellite is set to provide a...
News ObservationNovember 21, 2020 -
Tenth EU/ESA Space Council
The 10th high-level EU/ESA Space Council took place on Friday 20 November 2020 with the topic ‘Orientations on the European contribution in establishing key principles for the...
News SciencesNovember 20, 2020 -
CNES SOLICITS PROPOSALS FOR A TARANIS 2 MISSION
After the loss of the Taranis satellite subsequent to the failure of Vega flight VV17, and in light of the science value of this mission in a still largely unexplored field of...
Institutional affairsNovember 20, 2020 -
Creating chaos: Craters and collapse on Mars
This slice of Mars, seen here as imaged by Mars Express’ High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), shows signs of various intriguing processes, illustrating the incredible contrast...
News SciencesNovember 19, 2020 -
ExoMars parachute testing moves forward
The parachute system that will help deliver the Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover to Mars has completed the first full-scale high altitude drop test with redesigned elements...
News SciencesNovember 18, 2020 -
Vega flight VV17 failure: Arianespace and ESA...
On Tuesday 17 November, Arianespace announced the loss of the Vega VV17 mission, carrying two payloads: SEOSAT-Ingenio for ESA and Taranis for CNES.
News SciencesNovember 17, 2020 -
Contracts signed for three high-priority...
Today, ESA signed contracts with Thales Alenia Space in France and in Italy, and Airbus in Spain to build three of the new high-priority Copernicus satellite missions: CHIME, CIMR...
News ObservationNovember 14, 2020 -
17TH VEGA FLIGHT TO LAUNCH SEOSAT-INGENIO...
ArianeNovember 12, 2020 -
ESA welcomes positive review for Mars Sample...
An ambitious campaign by NASA and ESA to collect samples from the Red Planet and return them to Earth has been praised by an Independent Review Board set up to review the multi-...
News SciencesNovember 10, 2020 -
UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN SIDE OF STORMS, FRANCE’S...
SciencesNovember 6, 2020 -
Copernicus Sentinel-6 sealed in rocket fairing
As preparations for the launch of Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich continue, the team at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has bid farewell to the satellite as it...
News SciencesNovember 6, 2020 -
ESA and CNES choose renewable energy to power...
Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, covers 700 square kilometres and comprises the launch range, three operational launch complexes with another under development for...
News Other fieldNovember 6, 2020 -
Space Station 20th: astronauts celebrate humans’...
Monday 2 November, 2020 marks 20 years since the first crew took up residence on the International Space Station. Since then, 240 people including 18 ESA astronauts have lived and...
News SciencesNovember 2, 2020 -
20 years of human research on the International...
As the world celebrates two decades of humans in orbit around Earth on the International Space Station, this month’s science summary will look back not at four weeks of European...
News SciencesNovember 2, 2020