News and Events
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SWOT satellite climbs higher for a better view
Between 10 and 20 July, the French-American SWOT satellite, which measures the...
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CALIPSO bows out
The CALIPSO scientific mission ended on 1 August 2023. This date marks the end...
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Ariane 6 development status check
The final stages of Ariane 6’s development are underway in French Guiana and...
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Artemis programme: back to the Moon
NASA’s Artemis programme plans to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024, followed by an exploration/prospection phase using the Gateway as a staging outpost...
News Sciences General publicOctober 16, 2020 -
[PRESS] Successful final test firing of the P120C...
The P120C was successfully tested for the third time on October 7, at Europe’s Spaceport solid rocket motor test bench operated by the CNES.
News ArianeOctober 9, 2020 -
[PRESS] TRIBUTE TO DR. MICHAEL FREILICH, FORMER...
CNES pays glowing tribute to the memory of this outstanding partner of our agency.
News Institutional affairsAugust 7, 2020 -
[PRESS] ALPHA MISSION, THOMAS PESQUET TO RETURN...
Next spring, ESA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet will be returning to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Alpha mission and the first European astronaut to fly there on...
News SciencesJuly 28, 2020 -
[CNESMAG] Exploring life's origins:the...
CNESMAG 85 is now available!
News SciencesJuly 24, 2020 -
[PRESS] ESA RELEASES FIRST IMAGES FROM SOLAR...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the first images from its Solar Orbiter spacecraft, which completed its commissioning phase in mid-June and made its first close...
News SciencesJuly 16, 2020 -
[PRESS] INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL CONGRESS (IAC...
To limit population movements, the 71st edition of IAC will be virtual (The Cyberspace Edition) from 12-14 October 2020. Dubai will then be hosting the 72nd IAC in 2021, Paris the...
News Institutional affairsJune 3, 2020 -
[CNESMAG] Biodiversity:building resilience
CNESMAG 84 is now available!
News ObservationMay 29, 2020 -
BepiColombo takes last snaps of Earth en route to...
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its first flyby on 10 April, as the spacecraft came less than 12 700 km from Earth’s surface at 06:25 CEST, steering its trajectory...
News SciencesApril 10, 2020 -
Coronavirus lockdown leading to drop in pollution...
New data, based on observations from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, are showing strong reductions in nitrogen dioxide concentrations over several major cities across Europe...
News ObservationMarch 27, 2020 -
NASA Leadership Assessing Mission Impacts of...
To protect the health and safety of the NASA workforce as the nation responds to coronavirus (COVID-19), agency leadership recently completed the first assessment of work underway...
News SciencesMarch 20, 2020 -
ExoMars 2020 is postponed to 2022
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Roscosmos Space Corporation have decided to postpone the launch of the second ExoMars mission to study the Red Planet to 2022.
News SciencesMarch 13, 2020 -
[PRESS] CNES SCORES HIGH ON GENDER EQUALITY FOR...
CNES has pursued a pro-active and concerted policy in favour of gender equality for many years.
News Institutional affairsMarch 6, 2020 -
[PRESS] A SURPRISING FIRST YEAR OF SCIENCE FROM...
A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge from the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission. Findings described in a set of six papers published today reveal a...
News SciencesFebruary 24, 2020 -
Ariane 5 VA252 launch on February, 18th 2020
Ariane 5 ECA orbited 2 telecommunications satellites, JCSAT-17 and GEO-KOMPSAT-2B, from the Guiana Space Centre.
News Ariane InstitutionalFebruary 19, 2020 -
[CNESMAG] Agriculture : remote sensing raises the...
CNESMAG 83 is now available.
News Other fieldFebruary 14, 2020 -
[Press] ANNY CAZENAVE LAUREATE OF THE 2020...
Anny Cazenave, Emeritus Research Scientist at the LEGOS space geophysics and oceanography research laboratory, expert adviser to CNES and fellow of the French Academy of Sciences...
News SciencesJanuary 22, 2020 -
[Replay] Ariane 5 VA251 launch on January 16,...
Ariane 5 ECA orbited two telecommunications satellites, Eutelsat-Konnect and GSAT-30, from the Guiana Space Centre. Watch the liftoff replay.
News ArianeJanuary 16, 2020
