News and Events
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[Replay] Ariane 5 VA258 launch: mission accomplished!
The heavy European launcher Ariane 5 orbited the communications satellite...
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Ariane 5 VA260 launch: JUICE probe (04/14)
Flight VA260 planned on April 13, 2023 has been delayed due to weather...
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[Success] Ariane 5 VA260 launch: JUICE probe (04/14)
Flight VA260 planned on April 13, 2023 has been delayed due to weather...
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ATV - the European ISS resupply ship
The Jules Verne, the first of Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicles designed to ferry supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), arrived at the Guiana Space Centre in...
News InstitutionalAugust 3, 2007 -
Controlling the ATV from Toulouse
The ATV Jules Verne, the 1st of Europe’s transfer vehicles that will ferry supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), is set to make its maiden flight on 14 February 2008...
News InstitutionalAugust 3, 2007 -
Jules Verne ATV mission on the starting blocks
After a 12-day voyage across the Atlantic, the Jules Verne ATV*—the first fully automatic uncrewed cargo vessel built in Europe—has arrived safely at the Guyana Space Centre (CSG...
News InstitutionalAugust 3, 2007 -
Ultralight structures set to sail away in 2010.
A good idea is one thing, actually applying it is another. A technology first imagined in the 1960s to build ultralight structures has now reached maturity and is set to fly in...
News InstitutionalJune 27, 2007 -
Calisph’Air/Science Travellers project has the...
From the sands of Morocco to city suburbs, passing through the foothills of the Pyrenees on the way, hundreds of pupils have joined together in the Calisph’Air/Science Travellers...
News InstitutionalJune 27, 2007 -
Ultralight structures set to sail away in 2010 -...
In 2011, after it has completed its mission to investigate the equivalence principle, the Microscope satellite will become another spent piece of space debris in an already...
News InstitutionalJune 27, 2007 -
Calisph’Air/Science Travellers - Making science...
On 4 June, 150 programme participants met in Toulouse, France, to present their results. Another 200 fellow pupils also took part via a teleconference link-up.
News InstitutionalJune 27, 2007 -
Columbus - a laboratory equipped for science
The U.S. space shuttle is all set to deliver the European Columbus science module to the International Space Station (ISS) in December. A quick look inside the most modern...
News Other field InstitutionalMarch 28, 2007 -
2 months to go for Léopold Eyharts
At the age of 50, Léopold Eyharts is readying for his second spaceflight. 6 December, he will embark on the U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis for a flight to the International Space...
News InstitutionalMarch 28, 2007 -
GEIPAN UAP investigation unit opens its files
After 30 years of collating sightings and field investigations, GEIPAN*, the French unit responsible for researching and investigating unidentified aerospace phenomena (UAPs), is...
News InstitutionalMarch 26, 2007 -
Parasol in the eye of the storm
Late February, Cyclone Gamede brushed past Réunion, leaving 2 dead, 100 injured and more than 100 million euros in damage. CNES’s Parasol cloud- and aerosol-observing satellite...
News Observation InstitutionalFebruary 27, 2007 -
Spirit of Gagarin hovers over French Guiana as...
A symbolic and important milestone has been reached on the road to the arrival of the mythical Russian Soyuz launcher in French Guiana. Numerous VIPs and representatives from CNES...
News InstitutionalFebruary 27, 2007 -
COROT’s Christmas gift to CNES teams
The French COROT satellite soared aloft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, today, leaving a 100-metre-long column of flames in its trail on the way to explore new worlds.
News Sciences InstitutionalDecember 28, 2006 -
COROT science observations underway
After stabilizing the boresight in fine-pointing mode, using the instrument as a super star tracker, teams at CNES and French national scientific research centre CNRS have...
News Sciences InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
"Voyageurs des sables" Six high-school...
Guided by explorer Stéphane Lévin, a unique and demanding adventure awaits the 6 high-school pupils selected for the “Sand Travellers” (Voyageurs des Sables) expedition. With just...
News InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
Tech for Food
How can new technologies aid agricultural development in the world’s southern nations? This is just one of the questions that will be aired during the Tech for Food international...
News InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
Rosetta successfully swings by Mars
After swinging by Mars at an altitude of 250 km Sunday morning, Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft is now on track to continue its long journey to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which it...
News InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
Monitoring malaria in NigerAn effective field tool
Following trials conducted for the Space Surveillance for Epidemics (S2E) Argos project, 44 Argos transmitters have been deployed at dispensaries throughout Niger. The objective...
News InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006