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December 21, 2020
FRANCE-UK CLIMATE MISSION MOVES ONE STEP CLOSER
Two major subsystems of a joint France-UK space mission to combat climate change, by measuring carbon dioxide concentrations, have been delivered...
December 18, 2020
CNES AND EUMETSAT TO WORK TOGETHER WITH NADIR DATA FROM SWOT MISSION
CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Alain Ratier, Director General of Eumetsat (EUropean organisation for the exploitation of METeorological...
December 18, 2020
CNES AWARDS FIRST SME LABELS
Accredited products or services must have proven their effectiveness—for example, at least one product in the range must have matured to a...
December 16, 2020
GUIANA SPACE CENTRE, CNES AND ESA SIGN THE CONTRACT FOR MAINTAINING THE GUIANA SPACE CENTRE (CSG) LAUNCH RANGE IN OPERATIONAL CONDITION FOR THE PERIOD 2020-2024 AND CORE LAUNCH RANGE RENEWAL ACTIVITIES
Wednesday 16 December, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and ESA Director General Johann-Dietrich Wörner signed the contract to renew and upgrade...
December 14, 2020
365TH SESSION OF CNES BOARD OF DIRECTORS
At today’s meeting, the Board gave the go-ahead for the DYSCO1 programme to demonstrate optical links for telecommunications satellites. This...
December 11, 2020
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT, CNES SERVING ITS INTENTIONS
The COP21 conference closed on 12 December 2015 with a universal and ambitious climate agreement. For all the space agencies that worked towards...
December 11, 2020
CNES AT THE NEW SPACE ECONOMY FORUM MAKING THE TRANSITION TO A LASTING SPACE ECONOMY
Friday 11 December, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall addressed the New Space Economy Forum. This international event, organized from Rome, is...
December 10, 2020
CNES ATTENDS GIFAS SPACE COMMISSION HEARING
Jean-Yves Le Gall began the hearing by underlining the government’s stimulus plan encompassing space to support research and innovation and maintain...
December 7, 2020
HAYABUSA2 MISSION, SAMPLES FROM ASTEROID RYUGU ARRIVE BACK ON EARTH
On the night of 5 to 6 December 2020, samples collected from asteroid Ryugu by the Hayabusa2 space probe operated by JAXA landed back on Earth...
December 4, 2020
SPACE INSPIRE SERIES ENTERS DEVELOPMENT PHASE
Space telecommunications is an industry in transformation. Where telecommunications satellites have traditionally carried radiofrequency...
December 3, 2020
CNES SCIENCE PROGRAMMES COMMITTEE MEETS
CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall began with a review of the main events since the last meeting of the CPS. Following the launch failure of Vega on...
December 2, 2020
SOYUZ SUCCESSFULLY ORBITS FALCONEYE SATELLITE FROM GUIANA SPACE CENTRE FOR UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Wednesday 2 December, Soyuz accomplished a flawless launch from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, orbiting the FalconEye...
November 24, 2020
PHILIPPE LOGNONNÉ AND SYLVESTRE MAURICE, LAUREATES OF FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES’ CNES ASTROPHYSICS & SPACE SCIENCE PRIZE
Tuesday 24 November, Philippe Lognonné, a professor at the University of Paris and geophysicist at the IPGP Earth sciences institute, and Sylvestre...
November 23, 2020
ActInSpace® 2020: Despite the global health crisis, 2,300 people participated in the hackathon! Next step: the finals in 2021!
ActInSpace ®, the international hackathon, took place on 13 and 14 November, simultaneously over 5 continents, in 40 countries and 61 cities,...
November 23, 2020
SENTINEL-6 MICHAEL FREILICH CNES CENTRAL TO SEA-LEVEL MONITORING BY TOPEX/JASON/SENTINEL-6 SATELLITES
Almost 30 years ago, CNES and NASA embarked on the endeavour of measuring mean sea level with a high degree of accuracy, launching the ambitious...
November 20, 2020
CNES SOLICITS PROPOSALS FOR A TARANIS 2 MISSION
To this end, and more precisely to assess potential technical options for the mission’s instruments and spacecraft bus, the project organization...
November 17, 2020
VEGA FAILS ON 17TH FLIGHT
Statement by CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall after the failure of Vega on its 17th flight: “This failure of Vega reminds us once more that we are...
November 13, 2020
CNES AT THE PARIS PEACE FORUM
The growing space debris population poses a major risk to current orbital operations and the future use of space. As ‘cleaning’ space of these...
November 13, 2020
“SPACE FOR GUIANA”, A NEW DIVISION TO STRENGTHEN TIES BETWEEN CNES AND THE GUIANESE PEOPLE
CNES announces the creation of a “Space for Guiana” Division reporting to the Director of the Guiana Space Centre (CSG). The new division’s mission...
November 12, 2020
17TH VEGA FLIGHT TO LAUNCH SEOSAT-INGENIO SATELLITE FOR ESA AND TARANIS MISSION FOR CNES
On the night of 16 to 17 November, Vega will lift off from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) carrying the SEOSAT-Ingenio satellite...

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