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[PRESS] PHILIPPE BAPTISTE APPOINTED CNES PRESIDENT
At its cabinet meeting on Wednesday 14 April, the government appointed Philippe Baptiste as President of the French space agency CNES.
News Institutional affairsApril 14, 2021 -
[PRESS] MARS 2020 MISSION - PERSEVERANCE ROVER...
Thursday 18 February, the Perseverance rover set down in Jezero Crater, an impact basin 45 kilometres across, home to an ancient river delta that flowed 3½ billion years ago into...
News SciencesFebruary 18, 2021 -
[CNESMAG] Exploration : moving up a scale
CNESMAG 87 is available !
News SciencesFebruary 17, 2021 -
[Mars 2020] Destination Mars : guidebook n°3
Once no more than a faint orange dot in the sky, in the space of less than a century Mars has become a keen focus of study. Its ancient river beds, outflow channels and giant...
News SciencesFebruary 12, 2021 -
[REPLAY] Soyuz successfully orbits CSO-2 satellite
Tuesday 29 December, Soyuz accomplished a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre carrying the French CSO-2 military observation and security satellite.
News DefenceDecember 29, 2020 -
Happy new year!
CNES wishes you the best for 2021. In need of space.
News Institutional affairs General public, InstitutionalDecember 23, 2020 -
[PRESS] Taranis : Vega fails on 17th flight
Mission failure. 8 minutes after liftoff of Vega mission VV17, following the first ignition of the engine of the Avum upper stage, a deviation of trajectory was identified,...
News SciencesNovember 17, 2020 -
[CNESMAG] Taranis:the hidden side of storms
CNESMAG 86 is now available!
News SciencesNovember 3, 2020 -
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
