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December 5, 2018
France-United States space cooperation - InSight Mars exploration mission,first tests of French SEIS seismometer successful
While SEIS remains stowed on the deck of the lander, the three French very-broad band (VBB) sensors that are the core of the instrument are normally...
December 5, 2018
Ariane 5 completes 102nd successful launch - GSAT-11 and GEO-KOMPSAT-2A in orbit
With a launch mass of 5,854 kilograms, GSAT-11 is an operational telecommunications satellite designed and built by ISRO. The largest satellite ever...
December 4, 2018
CNES and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Regional Council partner to drive the region’s economic development
The agreement signed today identifies three main avenues for collaboration: providing space solutions and technologies to drive the region’s...
December 4, 2018
European Space Week 2018 in Marseille, space technology serving Europe
From Monday 3 to Thursday 6 December, Marseille is hosting European Space Week 2018, a leading European Union event showcasing space technologies...
December 3, 2018
CNES partners 3AF
Monday 3 December, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Michel Scheller, President of 3AF1, the French aeronautical and astronautical association,...
November 30, 2018
Next Ariane 5 mission - Launch of GSAT-11 and GEO-KOMPSAT-2A satellites
With a launch mass of 5,854 kilograms, GSAT-11 is an operational telecommunications satellite designed and built by ISRO. It is the largest...
November 30, 2018
Space and sports medicine CNES and Stade Toulousain sign joint statement of interest
CNES and Stade Toulousain are joining forces to develop physiological and psychological monitoring of healthy subjects in a very specific...
November 30, 2018
CNES Science Programmes Committee meets - Rich harvest of successes and preparing for the future
CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall kicked off the meeting with a recap of the rich harvest of successes in the final quarter of the year, accomplished...
November 29, 2018
CNES employee representation - Signature of unanimous agreement to implement Economic and Employee Relations Committee (CSE)
This agreement reflects new legislation enacted in 2017 that has transformed the legal framework governing employee representation, mandating the...
November 27, 2018
France-Israel Season 2018, French and Israeli classes meet for season-closing event
The France-Israel Season 2018 has highlighted scientific collaborations between the two nations through exhibitions, conferences and educational...
November 27, 2018
France-United States space cooperation - French science on Mars - InSight lands on Mars with French SEIS seismometer
The Mars landing was carried live from the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie in Paris, in the presence of CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall,...
November 23, 2018
France-Germany space cooperation - Pascale Ehrenfreund, Chair of DLR’s Executive Board, visits Toulouse Space Centre
On the occasion of the ILA air show in Berlin in April, CNES and DLR signed a letter of intent on technology and disruptive innovation in space to...
November 23, 2018
Defence Innovation Forum - CNES and NEXEYA present ANGELS, France’s first industrial nanosatellite
The ANGELS project, which got underway in March 2017, aims to develop and market a new series of commercial nanosatellites weighing less than 50...
November 21, 2018
Luc Blanchet laureate of the French Académie des Science’s CNES Astrophysics & Space Science award
Tuesday 20 January, Luc Blanchet, Research Director at the French national scientific research centre’s IAP astrophysics institute in Paris,...
November 21, 2018
France-Israel space cooperation - CNES co-organizes first International VENµS End-Users Conference
Wednesday 21 November at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall spoke at the opening of the first International VENµS...
November 21, 2018
Vega makes 13th successful launch orbits MOHAMMED VI-B satellite for the Kingdom of Morocco
On the night of 20-21 November, Vega accomplished a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), orbiting the MOHAMMED...
November 20, 2018
ExoMars 2020 - Oxia Planum selected as landing site
Oxia Planum—the clear winner European scientists and engineers met at the UK’s National Space Centre in Leicester on 8 and 9 November to select the...
November 20, 2018
Argos-3 instrument successfully activated on EUMETSAT’s Metop-C satellite
The Argos-3 instrument was successfully activated on the Metop-C satellite from the EUMETSAT control centre on 16 November 2018. The two instrument...
November 19, 2018
Space cooperation between France and Belgium, supporting research into climate change and technological innovation
Monday 19 November 2018, during the visit to Belgium of French President Emmanuel Macron, CNES Chief Operating Officer Lionel Suchet and Franck...
November 19, 2018
CNES in Moscow for 20th anniversary of the International Space Station
Attended by S.A. Ryabkov, deputy foreign minister of the Russian Federation, the 20th anniversary event included welcome speeches from, among others...

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