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June 19, 2023
Japan at the Paris Air Show as CNES’s guest of honour
LAt the Paris Air Show, from 19 to 25 June, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and CNES will be highlighting the close ties that France...
June 8, 2023
Science, astronomy and Earth observation driving Chinese-French space cooperation
Thursday 8 June at CNES Head Office, the agency’s Chairman & CEO Philippe Baptiste and Zhang Kejian, Administrator of the China National Space...
May 31, 2023
CNES at GLOC 2023 (Global Space Conference on Climate Change)
Jointly organized by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and the Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA), the 2023 Global Space Conference on...
May 25, 2023
CNES and UniBW signed with ASI a MoU on the SpaceFounders program
The French Space Agency (CNES) and the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich (UniBW) signed with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) a Memorandum of...
April 14, 2023
New launch success for Ariane 5 - Orbits ESA's JUICE space mission
On 14 April, Ariane 5, operated by Arianespace, completed a flawless launch on its 116th flight from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe’s...
April 5, 2023
Next Ariane 5 flight to launch ESA’s JUICE mission
On 13 April, Ariane 5, operated by Arianespace, will lift off on its 116th flight from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe’s spaceport in Kourou,...
March 24, 2023
SWOT water-tracking satellite sends back first stunning views
The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite has sent back some of its first glimpses of water on the planet’s surface,...
February 23, 2023
France and Sweden step up cooperation in space
Wednesday 22 February 2023, at the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA) Conference, CNES Chairman & CEO Philippe Baptiste and SNSA Director...
February 16, 2023
Great success for the finals of the 5th edition of ActInSpace®, the international competition dedicated to space applications
The awards ceremonies for ActInSpace 2022®, the major international hackathon aimed at imagining the products and solutions of tomorrow using space...
February 13, 2023
SpaceFounders enrols third class of future space champions
SpaceFounders, the European space start-up accelerator led by CNES and Connect by CNES in partnership with Bundeswehr University Munich (UniBw), has...
February 2, 2023
CNES Innovation Day - Space and Digital in perspective
Tuesday 31 January, CNES organized its eighth Innovation Day on the theme of Space and Digital. This yearly gathering aims to highlight how the...
January 19, 2023
EUSPA entrusts CNES with the responsibility of providing and maintaining the SAR-Galileo services for the next 10 years
On Thursday 19 January 2023, CNES and EUSPA signed a framework contract confirming the European Union Space Programme Agency's (EUSPA) intention to...
January 17, 2023
CNES in 2023 Challenges and opportunities - Building the future of space
Tuesday 17 January, CNES Chairman & CEO Philippe Baptiste presented his New Year wishes to the press, hailing journalists’ unstinting efforts to...
December 16, 2022
SWOT satellite launches successfully from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Friday 16 December, the SWOT satellite (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) was sent into orbit atop a Falcon 9 vehicle operated by SpaceX from...
December 16, 2022
SpaceFounders accelerator invests in two of its start-ups
SpaceFounders has invested for the first time in two start-ups that have been nurtured and proven themselves through its first intensive support...
December 14, 2022
New launch success for Ariane 5, MTG-I1, Galaxy 35 and Galaxy 36 satellites in orbit
Ariane 5, operated by Arianespace, completed a flawless launch on 13 December on its 115th flight from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe’s...
December 8, 2022
Delivery of MicroCarb instrument marks first milestone on way to launch in 2024
After 56 days of thermal vacuum testing at Airbus Defence & Space’s facility in Toulouse and several years in development, the MicroCarb...
December 7, 2022
CNES Science Programmes Committee meets
Tuesday 6 December, CNES’s Science Programmes Committee (CPS) met at the agency’s Head Office in Paris Les Halles. The CPS reports to the CNES Board...
December 1, 2022
SWOT satellite to launch 15 December from Vandenberg Space Force Base
After more than a year in assembly, integration and testing by NASA and CNES teams at Thales Alenia Space’s facility in Cannes, France, the SWOT...
November 22, 2022
Rashid rover heading for the Moon carrying three CASPEX cameras developed by CNES
Having already proved themselves on CNES’s EyeSat nanosat, on the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover and on 100 OneWeb...

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