Press releases

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...
November 18, 2022
COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh - CNES key to France’s space for climate drive
From 6 to 18 November, the world’s leaders came together at the COP27 climate change conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. On this occasion, CNES,...
November 17, 2022
Argos-4 enters operational service - An outstanding CNES international collaboration
On 4 November, the Argos-4 instrument was successfully powered up aboard the GAzelle satellite from its control centre, working with the Argos...
November 9, 2022
2022 France-Portugal Season a great success for CNES and Portugal Space
Organized by the Institut français, the nine-month 2022 France-Portugal Season came to a close at the end of October. With some 400...
October 20, 2022
InSight mission releases data on monster marsquake
Since the start of the InSight mission, the SEIS seismometer has been collecting high-quality science data about Mars on a daily basis. These data,...
October 17, 2022
First fully integrated Ariane 6 on its launch pad for combined tests
•    The     Ariane 6 upper composite dedicated to the Ariane 6 combined test campaign has now joined the rest of the launcher on its launch pad at...
October 14, 2022
CAIPAN II international conference on unidentified aerospace phenomena organized by GEIPAN in Toulouse
Thursday 13 and Friday 14 October, the GEIPAN research and information group dedicated to unidentified aerospace phenomena (UAP) at CNES organized...
October 13, 2022
Science Day 2022 - A new CNES event devoted to space science
CNES is instituting its annual Science Day!In its role stimulating French space science research, CNES organizes a Science Survey Seminar (SPS)...
September 14, 2022
Final results of MICROSCOPE mission achieve record levels of precision
The MICROSCOPE mission has delivered its latest results and has confirmed the equivalence principle with unprecedented accuracy of 10-15.  These...
September 8, 2022
New launch success for Ariane 5 - KONNECT VHTS satellite in orbit
7 September, Ariane 5, operated by Arianespace, completed a flawless launch from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe’s spaceport in Kourou,...
September 6, 2022
Space cooperation for climate science - SWOT satellite all set to depart for United States
After more than a year in assembly, integration and testing at Thales Alenia Space’s facility in Cannes, France, for the French and U.S. space...
September 1, 2022
Next Ariane 5 mission - Launch of KONNECT VHTS for Eutelsat
6 September, Ariane 5, operated by Arianespace, will lift off on its 114th flight from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe’s spaceport in Kourou,...
August 25, 2022
Livestream of Artemis programme’s first launch
Monday 29 August at 2:39 p.m., the SLS heavy-lift launcher will lift off from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in the United States. CNES experts will be...

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