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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Balloon campaign continues in Kiruna
Science flights in Kiruna concluded on 29 April. The campaign in northern Sweden continues, however, with further flights to improve CNES balloons.
News InstitutionalMay 20, 2010 -
François Hollande visits the Guiana Space Centre
French President François Hollande was in French Guiana on Saturday 14 December to visit the facilities at the Guiana Space Centre, accompanied by CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall.
News InstitutionalMay 12, 2010 -
Solo across the Pacific, tracked by Argos
On 10 May, Serge Jandaud — a cardiologist at the Pasteur clinic in Toulouse — will attempt to row single-handed across the Pacific from Lima (Peru) in the east to Brisbane (...
News Observation InstitutionalMay 6, 2010 -
Herschel challenges old ideas on star formation
After Planck last week, it is now the turn of Europe’s Herschel space observatory to deliver its share of surprises. The infrared telescope—in orbit for just a year—has called...
News Sciences InstitutionalMay 6, 2010 -
Soyuz readies for business in Kourou
The Guiana Space Centre (CSG) has completed construction of a new launch complex, not far from the Ariane 5 facility. Later this year, it will become home to a new recruit from...
News InstitutionalMay 3, 2010 -
DECLIC: French experiment on ISS reveals new...
Installed on the International Space Station in September 2009, the DECLIC instrument developed by CNES has returned its first results. Thanks to DECLIC, scientists have...
News Sciences InstitutionalApril 13, 2010 -
New stratospheric balloon campaign starts in...
A dozen balloon releases are scheduled this year in Sweden to gather scientific data on the stratosphere and to improve CNES’s balloons.
News InstitutionalMarch 31, 2010 -
CNES embarks on expedition with Jean-Louis Etienne
In April, French explorer Jean-Louis Etienne will set out on a 3,500-km balloon crossing of the North Pole between Spitsbergen and Alaska. A challenging mission that aims to gain...
News Observation InstitutionalMarch 17, 2010 -
CoRoT makes tantalizing new discovery
CNES’s space telescope recently detected the transit of a temperate Jupiter-sized exoplanet 1,500 light-years from Earth. This discovery will teach us more about similar types of...
News Sciences InstitutionalMarch 17, 2010 -
Jason-2 delivers its first global maps
The european-US Jason-3 oceanography satellite is scheduled to launch in 2013 to replace Jason-1. Its objective is to continue monitoring sea-surface height and pursue the 21-year...
News InstitutionalMarch 11, 2010 -
Cryosat-2 ready to embark on ice mission
ESA’s Cryosat-2 satellite is set to embark on its mission above Earth’s poles on 25 February. With its altimeter, aided by the DORIS instrument, it will monitor variations in ice...
News Observation InstitutionalFebruary 2, 2010 -
Cardiomed to take the pulse of cosmonauts
The Cardiomed suite of biomedical instruments developed by CNES is set to fly to the International Space Station on 5 February. It will allow Russian physicians to monitor...
News Other field InstitutionalJanuary 29, 2010 -
AltiKa - Call for proposals until 15 February
On 15 December 2009, France and India issued a call for proposals from the international scientific community to exploit data from AltiKa, a high-resolution altimeter dedicated to...
News Observation InstitutionalJanuary 25, 2010 -
Haiti - CNES coordinates satellite support
The International Charter on Space and Major Disasters was activated 13 January to aid the victims of the violent earthquake that shook Port-au-Prince the day before.
News Observation InstitutionalJanuary 19, 2010 -
Parasol moves off the A-Train’s track
Before the Parasol satellite runs out of fuel, CNES has decided to take it off the A-Train, where it has been probing Earth’s atmosphere with its companions for 5 years.
News Observation InstitutionalJanuary 13, 2010 -
ACES – the time-measuring super machine
15 December 2009, CNES and ESA signed an agreement concerning ACES, the world’s most accurate atomic space clock, scheduled to be flown to the ISS in 2013.
News Sciences InstitutionalJanuary 6, 2010 -
SMOS sends back first pictures
Europe’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite (SMOS) reached its final operating orbit on 19 November. In addition to its prime mission, SMOS is also mapping brightness...
News Observation InstitutionalNovember 27, 2009 -
Rosetta to swing by Earth on 13 November
A few days from now, the European probe will make another Earth flyby and receive a gravitational assist towards its final destination, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The...
News InstitutionalNovember 9, 2009