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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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CNESMAG 74 - Climate : One Planet Summit
CNESMAG 74 about climate is online!
News Institutional affairsDecember 7, 2017 -
First gravitational results from Microscope
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity continues to stand the test of time and scientists’ ever deeper probing. The first results from the Microscope satellite have...
News SciencesDecember 4, 2017 -
[PRESS] First results from Microscope satellite...
Measurements of the equivalence principle had not been improved upon for 10 years, but now the first results from CNES’s Microscope satellite, equipped with accelerometers...
News SciencesDecember 4, 2017 -
[PRESS] James Webb Space Telescope (Weeb) sees...
The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has reached a key milestone with the completion of cryogenic tests on its telescope and instruments.
News ObservationNovember 20, 2017 -
[PRESS] French President Emmanuel Macron visits...
Friday 27 October, French President Emmanuel Macron visited the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), where he was welcomed by CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall, the CSG’s Director Didier...
News Institutional affairsOctober 30, 2017 -
[PRESS] Galileo serving connected/autonomous...
CNES, the Commissariat General for Sustainable Development/Research and Innovation Directorate (DRI), the Directorate General for Infrastructure, Transport and the Sea (DGITM),...
News TelecommunicationsOctober 30, 2017 -
[REPLAY] ARIANE 5 LAUNCH ON 29 SEPTEMBER 2017
Friday September 29, Ariane 5 completed a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre, orbiting two telecommunications satellites, Intelsat 37e & BSAT-...
News Ariane General public, InstitutionalSeptember 30, 2017 -
[PRESS] French space in Adelaide for 68th IAC
68th IAC - Adelaide, Australia, from 25 to 29 September.
News Ariane, Observation, Sciences, Telecommunications, DefenceSeptember 27, 2017 -
[PRESS] CNES and ArianeGroup step up cooperation...
On 15 September, CNES and ArianeGroup—the lead contractor for the Ariane family of launch vehicles—signed an agreement to step up their cooperation, innovate more closely together...
News Ariane, Institutional affairsSeptember 27, 2017 -
[PRESS] CNES tasks 500,000th firing of Curiosity’...
This symbolic achievement is the latest milestone in a unique scientific and technological adventure that has seen 15,000 individual measurements made, over 10 000 images...
News SciencesSeptember 21, 2017 -
Huygens - Landing on Titan
In December 2004, the U.S. Cassini spacecraft released the European Huygens module for the most-distant landing yet accomplished in the history of space exploration. Titan, Saturn...
News SciencesSeptember 11, 2017 -
Cassini - Exploring beneath Enceladus’ icy crust
Besides studying Saturn and its rings, a good deal of the Cassini mission focused on the planet’s moons. Among those where the most discoveries have been made is Enceladus, an icy...
News SciencesSeptember 8, 2017 -
Cassini: Destination Moons
In the space of 13 years, Cassini observed Saturn and devoted a lot of attention to its moons. With the mission now about to end, Patrick Michel, astrophysicist, planetologist and...
News SciencesSeptember 6, 2017 -
Cassini’s Saturnian legacy
Since entering orbit around Saturn in July 2004, the Cassini spacecraft has studied the planet and its moons from every angle. Before its dramatic dive into the gas giant’s...
News SciencesSeptember 1, 2017 -
Cassini-Huygens: a 30-year space odyssey
Cassini-Huygens is a joint NASA-ESA mission to Saturn and its moons. As the mission prepares to take its curtain call, Christophe Sotin, Chief Scientist, Solar System Exploration...
News SciencesAugust 30, 2017 -
[PRESS] Gilles Rabin appointed CNES Director of...
President and thereby Director General of CNES, Jean-Yves Le Gall has appointed Gilles Rabin as the centre’s new Director of Innovation, Applications and Science. The appointment...
News Institutional affairsAugust 29, 2017 -
[PRESS] Lionel Suchet appointed CNES Chief...
President and thereby Director General of CNES, Jean-Yves Le Gall has appointed Lionel Suchet as CNES Chief Operating Officer. The appointment follows that of Joël Barre as Head...
News Institutional affairsAugust 29, 2017 -
[PRESS] Venus vegetation-monitoring satellite...
A few days after being placed into orbit, the French-Israeli Venµs vegetation-monitoring satellite delivered its first images, offering a glimpse of the kind of data it is set to...
News ObservationAugust 23, 2017
