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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Rosetta wakes up from deep space hibernation
Operators at ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, received confirmation that the Rosetta spacecraft had woken up in the early evening of 20 January. After 10 years...
News InstitutionalJanuary 15, 2014 -
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet to fly to ISS in...
Geneviève Fioraso, France’s Minister for Higher Education and Research, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), and CNES President Jean-Yves Le...
News Other field InstitutionalJanuary 15, 2014 -
Soyuz orbits Sentinel-1A on 7th successful launch...
The first satellite of Europe’s Copernicus programme was sent aloft today, Thursday 3 April, by a Soyuz launcher from the Guiana Space Centre as scheduled at 18:02 local time (23:...
News Observation InstitutionalJanuary 15, 2014 -
Three Swarm satellites in Earth orbit
The Russian Rockot light launcher lifted off on schedule this Friday 22 November from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome carrying the three ESA scientific satellites dedicated to studying...
News Observation InstitutionalOctober 25, 2013 -
Swarm scientific satellites set to launch on 22...
The European Space Agency’s three Swarm satellites are scheduled to be placed into low-Earth orbit (460-530 km) on 22 November from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, by a Rockot...
News Observation InstitutionalOctober 25, 2013 -
Rosetta set to wake up on 20 January 2014
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft, launched in 2004, is set to awake from its extended deep-space hibernation in less than 40 days as it nears its ultimate destination, comet Churyumov-...
News InstitutionalOctober 25, 2013 -
Jean-Yves Le Gall: CNES in 2014 - “A chance for...
CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall delivered his New Year wishes to the press at head office in Paris on Monday 6 January. He took the opportunity to chart the agency’s course and...
News InstitutionalOctober 25, 2013 -
Final rehearsal for GAIA teams
From 2014, Europe's GAIA satellite will gather billions of items of observational data on stars and other celestial objects in our galaxy. But are the data processing centres...
News Sciences InstitutionalSeptember 12, 2013 -
Curiosity celebrates one year on Mars
On 6 August 2012, we followed Curiosity’s Mars landing live on our website. One year on, the rover is in great shape and on course for its primary target, Mount Sharp.
News Sciences InstitutionalAugust 6, 2013 -
Mission accomplished for CoRoT
After a mission that lasted twice as long as planned, CNES’s CoRoT spacecraft—capable of listening to the music of the heavens and hunting for exoplanets—is to be retired from...
News Sciences InstitutionalJune 24, 2013 -
ATV-4 docked with ISS
The 4th European cargo spacecraft successfully docked with the Russian Zvezda module of the ISS Saturday 15 June, just after 16:00 CET. The station crew can now begin the task of...
News InstitutionalJune 20, 2013 -
CNES launches Google+ page First hangouts during...
CNES is rolling out its Google+ page today to strengthen the close ties already forged with space enthusiasts and reach out to other on-line communities.
News InstitutionalJune 7, 2013 -
CNES supports SpaceUp Paris
From 24 to 26 May, the first SpaceUp Paris event is being organized by a community of bloggers with a passion for space. An innovative initiative that CNES is supporting by...
News InstitutionalMay 7, 2013 -
Sea elephant oceanographers: a 10-year success...
For the last 10 years, more than 200 elephant seals have been patrolling the southern seas wearing some strange headgear: an Argos transmitter instrumented with temperature,...
News Observation InstitutionalMay 7, 2013 -
1st SpaceUp Paris: Ariane 6 kick-off event a huge...
On 24 May 2013, a crowd of people began milling in the concourse of CNES’s Paris-Daumesnil facility. Carrying rucksacks and conversing in English, they had come from more than 20...
News InstitutionalMay 7, 2013 -
Planck reveals the first moments of the Universe
13.8 billion years ago, the Big Bang set off a sudden phase of inflation that stretched the primordial Universe at least 1026 times in less than a blink of an eye.
News Sciences InstitutionalMarch 21, 2013 -
Europe sets its sights on Ariane 6
Last November in Naples, ministers in charge of European space policy gave their blessing for a new Ariane 6 launcher designed to help Europe stay ahead in the satellite launch...
News InstitutionalMarch 1, 2013 -
SARAL satellite in orbit
The Indian SARAL satellite was placed into orbit Monday 25 February from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in southern India. The satellite is carrying AltiKa, a new-generation radar...
News Observation InstitutionalFebruary 25, 2013
