News and Events
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SWOT satellite climbs higher for a better view
Between 10 and 20 July, the French-American SWOT satellite, which measures the...
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CALIPSO bows out
The CALIPSO scientific mission ended on 1 August 2023. This date marks the end...
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Ariane 6 development status check
The final stages of Ariane 6’s development are underway in French Guiana and...
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Thierry Mandon at CNES Head Office to sign...
Tuesday 15 December, Thierry Mandon, Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research, visited CNES’s Head Office to sign the multi-year agreement setting the agency’s...
News Sciences InstitutionalDecember 15, 2015 -
COP21: CNES and DLR reaffirm commitment to...
CNES and its German counterpart DLR met on Tuesday 8 December 2015 at Le Bourget to reaffirm their commitment to jointly developing the MEthane Remote sensing LIdar missioN (...
News Sciences General public, InstitutionalDecember 8, 2015 -
COP21: Ségolène Royal and Thierry Mandon present...
On the occasion of the launch by France and the United States of the ‘Innovation Mission’, Ségolène Royal presented the French MicroCarb microsatellite project developed by CNES...
News ObservationDecember 8, 2015 -
El Niño: satellites see red
The wild child of the Pacific is shaping up to be a monster this winter, comparable to the 1997-1998 episode and possibly even worse. The story in pictures.
News Observation General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyDecember 1, 2015 -
FLEX mission to be next ESA Earth Explorer
ESA's Member States have selected FLEX as the eighth Earth Explorer mission, upon recommendation from the Earth Science Advisory Committee.
News Observation Specialist public, Science and technologyNovember 23, 2015 -
Rover egress tests in Toulouse
This week a simulation stretching between France (SEROM in CNES Toulouse) and the Netherlands will let ESA’s Planetary Robotics Laboratory test such an ‘egress’ scenario.
News Sciences InstitutionalOctober 28, 2015 -
Exomars 2018 should land on Oxia Planum
On October 21 2015, Oxia Planum has been preselected as the primary candidate for the landing site of the ExoMars 2018 mission.
News Sciences Specialist public, Science and technologyOctober 26, 2015 -
Jean-Yves Le Gall elected IAF President
The 66th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Jerusalem came to a close on Friday 16 October with the election of CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall as the next President...
News Other fieldOctober 16, 2015 -
The water-ice cycle on the comet "Tchouri...
From data supplied by ESA's probe Rosetta about 67P/Tchourioumov-Guerassimenko comet, scientists bring the first observational proof of an existing daily cycle of water-ice...
News Sciences Specialist public, Science and technologyOctober 8, 2015 -
Galileo: Alba and Oriana in orbit!
During the night of 10-11 September, Soyuz successfully launched Alba and Oriana, the 9th and 10th satellites in the Galileo constellation, Europe’s future GPS. But did you know...
News Ariane, Telecommunications General public, InstitutionalSeptember 11, 2015 -
Bubbles and Filaments at the Heart of the Milky...
From the analysis of all available data collected by the satellite XMM-Newton in the range of the X-rays, an international team has established the most detailed map of the hot...
News Sciences Specialist public, Science and technologyAugust 19, 2015 -
Rosetta - Over a year with a comet
On 13 August, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko reaches perihelion, the closest point on its elliptical orbit to the Sun. The Rosetta spacecraft has been escorting it since 6 August...
News SciencesAugust 12, 2015 -
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 -
Philae and Rosetta communicate for 20 minutes
This confirmed link comes as excellent news in Philae’s evolving mission, which is hotting up as comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko approaches perihelion (its closest point to the Sun,...
News SciencesJuly 10, 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 -
“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
