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[Replay] Ariane 5 VA258 launch: mission accomplished!
The heavy European launcher Ariane 5 orbited the communications satellite...
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Ariane 5 VA260 launch: JUICE probe (04/14)
Flight VA260 planned on April 13, 2023 has been delayed due to weather...
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[Success] Ariane 5 VA260 launch: JUICE probe (04/14)
Flight VA260 planned on April 13, 2023 has been delayed due to weather...
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[REPLAY] Ariane 5 launch on February 14 2017
Tuesday 14 February, Ariane 5 completed a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre, orbiting two telecommunications satellites, Sky Brasil 1 and Telkom...
News ArianeFebruary 15, 2017 -
CNESMAG 71 - Rosetta-Philae, the adventure...
For certain, the Rosetta mission that ended last September with the orbiter impacting the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after a controlled descent will mark the...
News Institutional affairs InstitutionalFebruary 6, 2017 -
Best wishes 2017
CNES wishes you a happy new year for 2017!
News Institutional affairsJanuary 6, 2017 -
CNES and Ifremer sign framework agreement - Space...
Thursday 8 December at CNES’s Head Office in Paris, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and François Jacq, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Ifremer, the French institute of...
News Institutional affairsDecember 9, 2016 -
CNES at the international Safeguarding Endangered...
The first international conference on safeguarding endangered cultural heritage took place in Abu Dhabi on 2-3 December with a big delegation of heads of state in attendance,...
News ObservationDecember 8, 2016 -
Europe’s launchers sector gears up to boost...
CNES has sold its almost 35% stake in Arianespace to Airbus Safran Launchers, in line with decisions reached at the last ministerial council meeting of the European Space Agency (...
News Ariane, Institutional affairsDecember 1, 2016 -
Jean-Pascal Le Franc appointed Director of...
Jean-Pascal Le Franc, previously CNES’s Deputy Director of Planning, International Relations and Quality, has been appointed to head the Directorate (DPI), effective Thursday 24...
News Institutional affairs InstitutionalNovember 25, 2016 -
Proxima mission Thomas Pesquet reaches...
The Soyuz spacecraft launched Thursday 17 November from Baikonur with France’s ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet on board docked today with the International Space Station.
News Other field, ProximaNovember 20, 2016 -
Thomas Pesquet en route to the International...
Thursday 17 November at 21:20 CET, Soyuz completed a flawless launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, sending aloft France’s ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, Russian...
News Institutional affairs , Other field, ProximaNovember 17, 2016 -
[REPLAY] ARIANE 5 LAUNCH ON NOVEMBER 17 2016
Ariane 5 ES orbited four Galileo satelllites from the Guiana Space Centre. The lift off happened on 17 November at 10:06 (French Guiana time), at 14 :06 (Paris time).
News ArianeNovember 10, 2016 -
Ariane 6 to take Europe’s launchers to new...
The Ariane 6 programme, approved at the ESA Ministerial Council meeting of 2 December 2014, seeks to halve launch costs per kilogram compared to Ariane 5. CNES has responsibility...
News ArianeNovember 10, 2016 -
FIMOC: Martians on Earth
On 6 August, the international Curiosity team celebrated the rover’s fourth (Earth) year on the surface of Mars. The rover hasn’t found any green men on the red planet yet, but...
News SciencesOctober 27, 2016 -
ExoMars: Schiaparelli spotted by MRO
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has identified markings probably left by the impact of the Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing technology demonstrator module on the...
News SciencesOctober 25, 2016 -
CNES awarded Happy Trainees 2016/2017 label
CNES was recently awarded the Happy Trainees label for 2016/2017 by Meilleures-Entreprises.com following a survey of interns and apprentices in July.
News Institutional affairsOctober 20, 2016 -
CNES post-doctoral research scientist Audrey...
“I’m from Alsace in Northeast France and a keen mountaineer, so I wasn’t really pre-destined for studying the ocean!” says Audrey Hasson with a smile. On 12 October, the young...
News SciencesOctober 20, 2016 -
CNESMAG 70 - ISS, Science and people
Surveying Earth from its 400-kilometre vantage point in orbit, the International Space Station (ISS) is poised for two key events at the end of the year on which France will be...
News Institutional affairsOctober 20, 2016 -
ExoMars 2016: TGO enters Martian orbit
The ExoMars 2016 mission’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) was successfully captured into Martian orbit Wednesday 19 October. However, the landing of Schiaparelli had still not been...
News SciencesOctober 19, 2016 -
Hurricane Matthew: The Charter activated in 5...
Friday October 7th, an extremely destructive and long-lived hurricane made his landfall over the United States coasts. The climatic monster wrought widespread destruction and...
News Observation General public, InstitutionalOctober 7, 2016
