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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Long-duration ISS mission under the watchful eye...
Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Florida yesterday. European astronaut Thomas Reiter on board is en route to the International Space Station, where he will be spending 6 to...
News Sciences InstitutionalJune 22, 2006 -
40 years of French-Russian space cooperation
30 June 1966, France and the Soviet Union signed a cooperation agreement on the peaceful exploration of space. 40 years later, that bold political initiative has blossomed into a...
News InstitutionalJune 22, 2006 -
PRISMA programme seeks to acquire expertise in...
2 satellites or more just tens of metres apart, sharing a payload and together constituting an instrument with much greater capability than a single satellite could provide. Such...
News Other field InstitutionalJune 22, 2006 -
Co-orbital asteroid leaves Earth's orbit
10 June, a small asteroid left Earth’s orbit to pursue its solitary course around the Sun. A unique opportunity to learn more about these unusual miniature moons, also known as co...
News InstitutionalJune 22, 2006 -
Voyager missions: at the edge of the Solar System
Launched nearly 30 years ago, the Voyager 1 space probe is now 100 times further from the Sun than Earth is, some 15 billion km away. With its twin Voyager 2, it is set to go past...
News InstitutionalJune 15, 2006 -
CLS - 20 years working for science and the...
Since 1986, CLS—a subsidiary of CNES and IFREMER—has been leveraging CNES’s expertise in processing transmitter signals received by satellites and working to safeguard the planet...
News InstitutionalJune 15, 2006 -
Indonesia:International Charter on Space and...
Saturday 27 May, a big earthquake of magnitude 6.3 shook the Yogyakarta region in the south of Java. The same day, the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters was...
News InstitutionalJune 7, 2006 -
Calipso climbs aboard the train
One month after launch, Calipso has joined the A-Train constellation of 6 French-U.S. atmosphere-observing satellites. Calipso’s instruments are being checked out and brought into...
News InstitutionalJune 1, 2006 -
IASI to acquire new data for weather forecasting
Europe’s weather forecasting system is set to benefit soon from a new series of spacecraft, with the 1st of the MetOp satellites set for launch on 17 July. Its payload includes...
News Observation InstitutionalMay 31, 2006 -
CNES and Eumetsat sign Jason-2 agreement
Last month, Europe (CNES and Eumetsat) and the United States (Nasa and NOAA) signed a cooperation agreement on the Jason-2 programme. The European partners have now signed a new...
News InstitutionalMay 24, 2006 -
Sand dunes on Titan
The Cassini spacecraft has revealed sand dunes on the surface of Titan, Saturn’s giant moon. The dunes look very similar to those seen in the Namibian desert. They appear to have...
News Sciences InstitutionalMay 24, 2006 -
Columbus enters home straight before ISS
The Columbus laboratory is one of Europe’s main contributions to the International Space Station. The European module recently completed integration at EADS ST and has now been...
News Other field InstitutionalMay 17, 2006 -
Demeter pulling out all the stops
Launched in 2004, Demeter is set to reach a new milestone on completing 2 years in orbit. Has this small experimental satellite succeeded in penetrating the mysterious ways in...
News Observation InstitutionalMay 11, 2006 -
A treat for comet watchers
12 May, the main fragment of a disintegrating comet will pass within 10 million km of Earth. That’s close enough to see it through a pair of binoculars, just before dawn.
News InstitutionalMay 11, 2006 -
Mars: new terms for a new timescale
Until now, the history of the planet Mars has been divided into 3 broad eras—the Noachian, Hesperian and Amazonian—based on morphological considerations and numerous geological...
News Sciences InstitutionalMay 3, 2006 -
Calipso soars skyward
After a series of delays, the operational teams were growing impatient for the day they could announce the successful launch of the Calipso satellite and its 1st in-orbit...
News InstitutionalMay 3, 2006 -
Spot monitors flooding in the East
Since the start of April, the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters has been activated 4 times to monitor flooding in Central Europe1, Austria2, Hungary3 and Romania4...
News InstitutionalApril 27, 2006 -
Planck to look back to the dawn of the Universe
The European Planck satellite to be launched in 2008 aims to map the geometry and composition of the “1st light” of the Universe more precisely than ever before. But before...
News Sciences InstitutionalApril 20, 2006
