News and Events
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New Gaia star catalogue reveals surprising discoveries
The third Gaia catalogue—Data Release 3 (DR3)—eagerly awaited by the scientific...
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[Replay] Ariane 5 VA257 launch on June 22, 2022
Ariane 5 orbited 2 telecommunications satellites MEASAT-3d and GSAT-24 on...
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[CNESMAG] SWOT:planet water
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[Press] CNES and Meteo-France sign first ever...
Thursday 11 May in Toulouse, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Meteo-France Chairman & CEO Jean-Marc Lacave signed a framework agreement covering all areas of cooperation...
News Observation, Institutional affairsMay 11, 2017 -
[REPLAY] ARIANE 5 LAUNCH ON 04 MAY 2017
Thursday 04 May, Ariane 5 completed a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre, orbiting two telecommunications satellites, SGDC et KOREASAT-7.
News ArianeMay 5, 2017 -
[PRESS] Jacques-Emile Blamont made Grand Officer...
Wednesday 19 April, President François Hollande awarded the insignia of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour at a ceremony in the Élysée Palace to Professor Jacques-Emile Blamont...
News Institutional affairsApril 21, 2017 -
France-Japan space cooperation CNES and JAXA to...
Monday 10 April in Tokyo, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Naoki Okumura, President of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), signed an agreement to prepare the MMX (...
News Sciences, Institutional affairsApril 10, 2017 -
[PRESS] 33rd Space Symposium to ‘invent the...
CNES is at the 33rd Space Symposium being held Monday 3 to Thursday 6 April in Colorado Springs, United States. Founded in 1984, the symposium is a key event for the international...
News Institutional affairsApril 6, 2017 -
[PRESS] CNES stratospheric balloons. Three major...
Three major stratospheric science balloon campaigns are planned this year to fly novel astrophysics experiments in the field of Universe science. CNES and French research...
News SciencesApril 5, 2017 -
[PRESS] Jean-Yves Le Gall of France has been...
The new chairship starts on 1 July 2017.
News Institutional affairsMarch 16, 2017 -
[PRESS] French Space Operations Act: Very...
Six years after the French Space Operations Act (FSOA) came into effect, CNES brought together space stakeholders today to analyse its impacts in light of the latest evolutions in...
News Institutional affairsMarch 15, 2017 -
[PRESS]Ségolène Royal announces launch of...
Friday 10 March, Ségolène Royal, Minister for the Environment, Energy and Maritime Affairs, in charge of international climate relations, and Louis Schweizer, the Commissioner...
News Institutional affairsMarch 10, 2017 -
[Replay] Vega mission to orbit Sentinel-2B...
Monday 6 March, Vega lifted off from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana carrying Sentinel-2B, the fourth satellite of the Copernicus constellation. The launch, conducted on...
News TelecommunicationsMarch 7, 2017 -
[REPLAY] Ariane 5 launch on February 14 2017
Tuesday 14 February, Ariane 5 completed a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre, orbiting two telecommunications satellites, Sky Brasil 1 and Telkom...
News ArianeFebruary 15, 2017 -
CNESMAG 71 - Rosetta-Philae, the adventure...
For certain, the Rosetta mission that ended last September with the orbiter impacting the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after a controlled descent will mark the...
News Institutional affairs InstitutionalFebruary 6, 2017 -
Best wishes 2017
CNES wishes you a happy new year for 2017!
News Institutional affairsJanuary 6, 2017 -
CNES and Ifremer sign framework agreement - Space...
Thursday 8 December at CNES’s Head Office in Paris, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and François Jacq, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Ifremer, the French institute of...
News Institutional affairsDecember 9, 2016 -
CNES at the international Safeguarding Endangered...
The first international conference on safeguarding endangered cultural heritage took place in Abu Dhabi on 2-3 December with a big delegation of heads of state in attendance,...
News ObservationDecember 8, 2016 -
Europe’s launchers sector gears up to boost...
CNES has sold its almost 35% stake in Arianespace to Airbus Safran Launchers, in line with decisions reached at the last ministerial council meeting of the European Space Agency (...
News Ariane, Institutional affairsDecember 1, 2016 -
Jean-Pascal Le Franc appointed Director of...
Jean-Pascal Le Franc, previously CNES’s Deputy Director of Planning, International Relations and Quality, has been appointed to head the Directorate (DPI), effective Thursday 24...
News Institutional affairs InstitutionalNovember 25, 2016 -
Proxima mission Thomas Pesquet reaches...
The Soyuz spacecraft launched Thursday 17 November from Baikonur with France’s ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet on board docked today with the International Space Station.
News Other field, ProximaNovember 20, 2016
