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March 11, 2021
366TH SESSION OF CNES BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The French government has given CNES sole responsibility for executing the stimulus plan in support of the space sector. The subsidy agreement...
March 11, 2021
UN PREMIER BILAN DE SANTE EXCELLENT POUR L’INSTRUMENT SUPERCAM A LA SURFACE DE MARS
Following the landing of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover in Jezero Crater on 18 February, the first telemetry received by teams at the French...
March 9, 2021
FRANCE-CHINA SPACE COOPERATION - CNES PRESIDENT AND CNSA ADMINISTRATOR MEET
Tuesday 9 March, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall held a videoconference meeting with Zhang Kejian, Administrator of the China National Space...
March 9, 2021
CNES SCIENCE PROGRAMMES COMMITTEE MEETS
Monday 8 March, the CNES Board of Directors’ Science Programmes Committee (CPS) met remotely by videoconference in strict accordance with social...
March 5, 2021
LAUNCH VEHICLES DIRECTORATE RENEWS R&D CHALLENGES AND R&T CALL FOR IDEAS
After the success of its R&D Challenge in 2020, CNES is doubling up this year with two challenges focusing on reusable launcher upper stages and...
March 4, 2021
CNES AND ONERA LONGSTANDING PARTNERS AND WORLD LEADERS IN RADIOFREQUENCY PROPAGATION RESEARCH
When sizing space telecommunications systems, the ability to counter adverse atmospheric effects on ground-to-satellite communication links is a key...
February 25, 2021
FRANCE-JAPAN SPACE COOPERATION - CNES AND JAXA MEET
Thursday 25 February, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Hiroshi Yamakawa, President of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), held a...
February 18, 2021
MARS 2020 MISSION - PERSEVERANCE ROVER LANDS SUCCESSFULLY CARRYING FRENCH SUPERCAM INSTRUMENT
 1ere image de Perseverance sur la planète Mars Credits: NASA This Mars landing was followed live from the Salle de l’Espace at CNES headquarters in...
February 12, 2021
FRANCE-UNITED STATES SPACE COOPERATION - DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN CNES AND NASA
Thursday 11 February, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall held a videoconference meeting with Steve Jurczyk, recently appointed Acting Administrator of...
February 11, 2021
SIXTH CNES INNOVATION DAY FOCUSES ON RISK MANAGEMENT
Opening the day’s proceedings, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall began by reviewing the highlights of the past year before turning to the main...
February 10, 2021
SPACE ECOSYSTEM ADAPTING TO HEALTH SITUATION FRENCH NEWSPACE NOW A REALITY
From the outset of the COVID-19 health crisis, CNES has instituted teleworking across the agency in line with government guidance. This policy has...
February 9, 2021
CNES AND ISAE-SUPAERO EXTEND TRAINING, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP FOR FIVE MORE YEARS
CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Olivier Lesbre, Managing Director of ISAE-SUPAERO, signed a new five-year agreement to consolidate their...
February 9, 2021
MARS 2020 MISSION - WATCH THE LANDING OF THE PERSEVERANCE ROVER AND ITS FRENCH SUPERCAM INSTRUMENT LIVE
Perseverance, NASA’s latest rover, will explore this region of Mars to reveal its geologic history, determine whether it was once habitable and look...
February 3, 2021
FRANCE AND SOUTH AFRICA STEP UP COOPERATION IN SPACE
CNES and the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) consolidated their partnership through an implementing arrangement for the framework...
February 1, 2021
CNES AND FONDATION AILES DE FRANCE JOIN FORCES TO OFFER GRANTS TO YOUNG STUDENTS PURSUING SPACE-RELATED PROJECTS
Under the aegis of the Fondation de France, the Fondation Ailes de France aims to help further learning and raise awareness of the aerospace sphere...
February 1, 2021
CNES AT THE 43RD COSPAR SCIENTIFIC ASSEMBLY
Jean-Yves Le Gall recalled that CNES’s actions in space research in support of the French scientific community are built on international...
January 29, 2021
PERSEUS SEMINAR, 16TH EDITION A GREAT SUCCESS IN VIRTUAL FORMAT
The annual PERSEUS student space research seminar, organized by CNES’s Launch Vehicles Directorate (DLA), was held virtually on 28 and 29 January....
January 29, 2021
CNSA CHAIRS SCO STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING
Friday 29 January, the Space Climate Observatory (SCO) held its fifth Steering Committee meeting, chaired by Zhang Kejian, Administrator of the...
January 28, 2021
CADMOS ACTIVELY PREPARING THOMAS PESQUET’S ALPHA MISSION
The CADMOS centre for the development of microgravity applications and space operations at CNES’s Toulouse Space Centre (CST) prepared and monitored...
January 27, 2021
FRANCE-ISRAEL SPACE COOPERATION - CNES AT THE 16th ILAN RAMON CONFERENCE
Jean-Yves Le Gall began by pointing out that as a programme-led space agency and technical field centre, CNES is at the crossroads between industry...

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