Scientific politics

The CNES is in charge of proposing the spatial scientific politics to its regulatory authorities.

The scientific program committee

For that the Board of directors of the CNES is assisted by the Scientific Programs Committee.

  • It examines the scientific interest of the research programmes submitted to the CNES as well as the scientific and technical capacity of proposing laboratories.
  • It emits notices and propositions on the research programmes.
  • It formulates, considering the available means, any useful proposal concerning the development of the space research in France.

Composed of a maximum of welve members chosen by supervisory ministries, it gathers personalities of the scientific world. Its Chairman is chosen on proposition of CNES.

The scientific community decides about the space program orientations every 4-5 years during the Scientific Prospective Conferences.

Evalutation committees

Each year, CNES calls on the scientific community for various contributions (APR, doctoral/postdoctoral...) linked to these programmatic orientations and the space strategy.

Scientists also participate in various committees; CPS, CERES, TOCA

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