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IASI pinpoints 248 ammonia emission hotspots
By analysing measurements from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI), a French-Belgian team has compiled the first global map of ammonia emissions with a...
News Observation Specialist public, Science and technologyDecember 20, 2018 -
[Replay] Soyuz launch VS20 (CSO-1) on December 19...
Soyuz rocket orbited CSO-1 satellite from our French Guiana Space Center on December 19, 2018. Launch initialy scheduled on December 18, 2018 had been postponed by 24 hours due to...
News, Event Defence General public, InstitutionalDecember 19, 2018 -
Jezero Crater: Landing Site for Mars 2020 Rover
NASA has chosen Jezero Crater as the landing site for its upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission after a five-year search, during which details of more than 60 candidate locations on...
News SciencesDecember 4, 2018 -
OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft arrives at Asteroid Bennu
Now, at about 11.8 miles (19 kilometers) from Bennu’s Sun-facing surface, OSIRIS-REx will begin a preliminary survey of the asteroid. The spacecraft will commence flyovers of...
News SciencesDecember 4, 2018 -
What do we know about Mars’ interior?
The first missions to reach the surface of Mars date back 40 years, but many mysteries still lie beneath its top layer of iron oxide. To delve deeper into the red planet, the...
News SciencesNovember 26, 2018 -
Source of Saturn’s kilometric radiation revealed
Using data from the Cassini mission, scientists are unravelling the mechanisms that drive auroral radio emissions at Saturn’s poles, which are key to understanding certain...
News SciencesNovember 13, 2018 -
[Replay] Soyuz launch VS19, Metop-C (IASI)
Soyuz rocket orbited the Metop-C satellite and french meteorological instrument IASI, from the Guiana Space Center in the night of 6 to 7 November 2018. Watch again the launch.
News Observation General public, InstitutionalNovember 7, 2018 -
Forecasting weather and understanding climate...
CFOSat (China-France Oceanography Satellite) was launched today, Monday 29 October, into low Earth orbit. This first joint mission with China is set to deliver data for weather...
News Observation, SciencesOctober 29, 2018 -
Successful launch for CFOSat
Monday 29 October, the China France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSat) was placed into orbit by a Chinese Long March 2C launch vehicle from the Jiuquan launch base in Inner Mongolia...
News ObservationOctober 29, 2018 -
[REPLAY] Ariane 5 launch - BepiColombo (VA245)
Ariane 5 completes 101st successful launch. The European BepiColombo mission on its way to Mercury. Rendezvous on 5 December 2025!
News, Event Ariane, SciencesOctober 20, 2018 -
Cassini reveals giant dust storms on Titan
These giant dust storms seen at the equator on Titan rise as far as 10 kilometres above the surface. Mars and Earth are no longer the only worlds in the solar system where such...
News Sciences Specialist public, Science and technologyOctober 5, 2018 -
[Replay] Ariane 5 launch (100th) on September 25...
Ariane 5 orbited two telecommunications satellites from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in French Guiana: Horizons 3e for Intelsat and its partner SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation;...
News, Event Ariane General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologySeptember 26, 2018 -
Saturn’s north polar hexagon
Analysis of data from the Cassini probe has revealed that a vortex towering more than 300 kilometres above Saturn’s north pole mirrors the famous hexagon cloud pattern observed...
News SciencesSeptember 19, 2018 -
MA-9: MASCOT’s landing site on asteroid Ryugu
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced today near Tokyo the three landing sites selected for the Hayabusa2 mission, whose small French-German MASCOT surface scout...
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyAugust 23, 2018 -
Choosing landing site for MASCOT proves “a real...
At CNES in Toulouse, the scientists and engineers working on the Hayabusa2/MASCOT mission have finished identifying and ranking 10 possible landing sites for MASCOT on Ryugu. No...
News Sciences Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyAugust 14, 2018 -
[Replay] 4 new Galileo satellites in orbit !
Ariane 5 ES orbited four more satellites (satellites 23 to 26) for the Galileo constellation. Liftoff happened at 13:25 (Paris time).
News Ariane General public, InstitutionalJuly 25, 2018 -
CNESMAG 77 – Miniaturization: smallsats step up...
Mini-, micro-, nano-, pico- are the new prefixes ruling the world of satellites today. Why? Because space too is riding the wave of the digital revolution and its stupendous...
News, Book TelecommunicationsJuly 18, 2018 -
[ARIANE 6] New P120C engine successfully tested
The solid-rocket booster for the future Ariane 6 and Vega-C launchers was successfully tested Monday 16 July on CNES’s BEAP solid booster test stand at the Guiana Space Centre.
News Ariane Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyJuly 16, 2018
