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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“We need Philae to learn more about the origins...
Francis Rocard, in charge of solar system exploration programmes at CNES, reacts to the news that contact has been regained with Philae.
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Press, Science and technologyJune 18, 2015 -
“I was the lucky one to see Philae wake up on my...
Philippe Gaudon, Rosetta mission project leader at CNES, tells us how he saw Philae wake up on his laptop screen on the evening of Saturday 13 June...
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyJune 16, 2015 -
Philae phones home
After 211 days of radio silence, a signal from Philae was received on Earth on Saturday 13 June at 22:28 CET. According to Stephan Ulamec, Philae Project Manager at the German...
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyJune 15, 2015 -
We’ve found Philae!
After months of searching, the teams at the LAM astrophysics laboratory in Marseilles and the SONC (Science Operations and Navigation Centre) in Toulouse, working with scientists...
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyJune 11, 2015 -
Successful launch for Ariane 5 on 27 May 2015 !
A new Ariane 5 ECA model orbited 2 telecommunications satellites on wednesday 27 May 2015 from the Guiana Space Centre: DirectTV-15 and SKY México-1. The launcher lifted off at 18...
News, Event, Video Ariane General public, Institutional, Youth, Specialist public, Politicians and decision makers, Teachers and educators, Companies, Press, Science and technologyMay 27, 2015 -
OSIRIS 11-cm-resolution pictures reveal comet in...
During its St Valentine’s Day flyby passing just 6 km from comet 67P’s nucleus, Rosetta’s OSIRIS-NAC narrow angle camera obtained an image with a pixel resolution of 11 cm showing...
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyMarch 3, 2015 -
ATV-5 undocks from the International Space Station
A love story that lasted more than 15 years came to an end a little after 14:30 CET Saturday 14 February, on St Valentine’s Day, when the ATV-5 Georges Lemaître undocked from the...
News Institutional affairs Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyFebruary 14, 2015 -
CNES and Google's Project Loon collaborate...
A fleet of balloons providing an Internet connection to rural, remote and underserved areas: that is the goal of Google’s ambitious Project Loon. CNES is supporting...
News Telecommunications InstitutionalDecember 11, 2014 -
Jean-Yves Le Gall: “In 2015, CNES will be making...
Monday 5 January, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall delivered his New Year wishes to members of the French and international press in the Salle de l’Espace at Paris Les Halles....
News Ariane, Observation, Sciences, Telecommunications, Defence, Institutional affairsDecember 11, 2014 -
Philae makes historic landing on comet 67P
Philae, the Rosetta mission’s lander, touched down on the nucleus of comet 67P on Wednesday 12 November at 15:34:54 UTC, 16:34:54 CET. The radio signal confirming this...
News Sciences InstitutionalNovember 12, 2014 -
Philae landing site named Agilkia
Thousands of you responded to ESA's call to find a name for Philae's landing site, initially designated ‘Site J'. It has now been named Agilkia. This name was among...
News Sciences InstitutionalNovember 4, 2014 -
Successful launch for Ariane 5 on 16 October 2014
Ariane 5 launcher orbited 2 telecommunications satellites from the European Space Port in French Guiana on 16 October 2014 : ARSAT-1 and Intelsat 30. Liftoff happened with a few...
News InstitutionalOctober 16, 2014 -
63rd consecutive success for Ariane 5
Ariane 5 ECA orbited 2 telecommunications satellites, DIRECTV-14 and GSAT-16, on 6 December 2014 after a 48 hours launch delay due to bad meteorological conditions in French...
News InstitutionalOctober 3, 2014 -
Philae to land on comet 67P on 12 November
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that its Rosetta spacecraft will deploy the Philae lander on 12 November. The chosen landing site will be finally confirmed on 14...
News InstitutionalSeptember 26, 2014 -
Philae landing site selected
After a busy weekend at CNES in Toulouse, Rosetta mission managers have chosen Philae’s landing site: on 11 November, if all goes according to plan, Europe’s lander module will...
News InstitutionalSeptember 15, 2014 -
Ariane 5 launch with 2 telecommunications...
Ariane 5 launcher orbited 2 telecommunications satellites from the European Space Port in French Guiana with a few minutes late: MEASAT-3b and Optus 10 on 11 September 2014 at 19:...
News InstitutionalSeptember 12, 2014 -
Rosetta: Five landing sites selected for Philae
Two and a half months before the long-awaited touchdown of Philae, scores of scientists from ESA, CNES, DLR and other agencies and laboratories convened at CNES in Toulouse this...
News InstitutionalAugust 25, 2014 -
Rosetta reaches its destination
After flawlessly completing a 10th rendezvous braking manoeuvre since 7 May, Rosetta arrived today at its destination and is now 100 km from the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-...
News InstitutionalAugust 6, 2014
