CNES Information System Director Geneviève Campan receives SpaceOps award

Geneviève Campan, CNES’s Information System Director, has been awarded the prestigious International SpaceOps Distinguished Service Medal for her “valuable contributions to its activities in various functions for more than ten years” in her previous post at the operations sub-directorate of the Toulouse Space Centre (CST), in the presence of Axel Cruau, Consul General for France in Los Angeles.

SpaceOps is the world’s leading forum for space operations and ground segments. A biennial event held since 1990, it brings together stakeholders from institutions, industry and academia working in space operations, attracting 600 to 800 attendees. Like all other major space agencies such as NASA, ESA, JAXA and DLR, CNES is a prime participant at SpaceOps and a member of its management, operating and technical standing committees.

Organized by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the SpaceOps 2014 event took place from 5-9 May in Pasadena, California. Twenty papers out of 340 presentations covering 11 topics and a promotional stand gave CNES teams the opportunity to showcase their expertise in this domain of excellence and to meet and talk with peers and colleagues from across the space sector.

CNES’s paper on “Two Years of Operations of the ChemCam Instrument on board the Curiosity Rover at FIMOC, the French Operations Center for Mars Instruments”, written by CNES Operations Manager Charles Yana with support from the agency’s FIMOC engineering team and mission scientists in France and the United States, was selected to appear in the main conference publication.

The next SpaceOps event will be held in the spring of 2016 in Daejon, South Korea.

On receiving her award, Geneviève Campan said: “I am very honoured to receive this award from SpaceOps, a flagship event for the space community. This honour also rewards CNES’s contribution to a long-standing partnership in a field where our teams’ know-how and expertise are internationally renowned.”

More about SpaceOps at www.spaceops.org

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