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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PSMA offers all-terrain emergency medical...
Getting emergency medical teams quickly to the scene of a disaster like a plane crash deep in forest terrain is no easy task. For this reason, French Guiana has worked with CNES...
News InstitutionalMarch 30, 2009 -
GOCE to map Earth’s gravity field
The launch of the European Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer satellite (GOCE), initially planned 10 September 2008, is now scheduled for 16 March. Its...
News Observation InstitutionalMarch 16, 2009 -
Surveying Earth’s oceans: Jason-1 and Jason-2...
After a 6-month cross-calibration phase, Jason-2 has been moved into the orbit of its predecessor Jason-1. The 2 ocean-observing satellites will now fly in tandem on parallel...
News Observation InstitutionalFebruary 24, 2009 -
CNES keeps a lookout for collisions in space
Last week’s collision between the Kosmos and Iridium satellites was an exceptionally rare event. But with the growing field of orbital debris now encircling the planet, the...
News InstitutionalFebruary 19, 2009 -
CoRoT discovers “super Earth”
CNES’s space telescope has “unearthed” the smallest exoplanet observed to date. The announcement was made last week at the 1st CoRoT International Symposium in Paris.
News Sciences InstitutionalFebruary 12, 2009 -
Tele-echography service to undergo full-scale...
The 1st robot designed to perform teleoperated ultrasound scans was rolled out in 2003 as a result of research work by Professor Philippe Arbeille at Tours Hospital, France,...
News InstitutionalJanuary 27, 2009 -
New chapter opening for Cospas-Sarsat
20 years after its inception, a new chapter is opening for the international Cospas-Sarsat satellite search-and-rescue programme. On 1 February, it will be making the final...
News Telecommunications InstitutionalJanuary 21, 2009 -
A busy 2 years in space for CoRoT
Thanks to CNES’s CoRoT space telescope, which recently completed its 2nd year of observations, 5 exoplanets have already been identified and scientists are learning more every...
News Sciences InstitutionalJanuary 16, 2009 -
Unsettling time for AMINO in space
The AMINO exobiology experiment supported by CNES was scheduled to be installed on the Russian module of the ISS on 23 December, but the EVA astronauts doing the job had to back-...
News Sciences InstitutionalJanuary 14, 2009 -
Concordiasi : le climat de l’Antarctique
In September and October 2009, 18 drifting balloons will be released to acquire measurements in the stratosphere. Twelve of them will release 600 parachuted dropsondes to...
News InstitutionalJanuary 14, 2009 -
2009 will be the International Year of Astronomy
Declared the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations and UNESCO, 2009 will give professional and amateur astronomers alike a chance to share their passion with...
News InstitutionalJanuary 6, 2009 -
IASI measuring ozone pollution
CNES’s IASI instrument on the MetOp-A satellite has enabled French scientists to retrace an ozone pollution episode from space. This kind of capability will help to improve air...
News Observation InstitutionalDecember 30, 2008 -
Water divining from space
From 17 to 19 November, as part of the International Year of Planet Earth, scientists from all over France got together at UNESCO in Paris to share their experiences. What united...
News InstitutionalDecember 3, 2008 -
AMINO to probe the origins of life
The 3rd exobiology experiment devised by the LISA laboratory in Créteil, France, supported by CNES, lifted off on board a Russian Soyuz launcher on 26 November. Called AMINO, it...
News Sciences InstitutionalDecember 2, 2008 -
Charter aids disaster-hit nations
Founded in 2000 by CNES and ESA, the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters regularly provides free satellite imagery to help nations organize emergency response...
News InstitutionalNovember 24, 2008 -
CNES sets sail with the Vendée Globe
CNES subsidiary CLS will be tracking the skippers in the Vendée Globe single-handed round-the-world yacht race by satellite and providing fleet positions. It will also be testing...
News Observation InstitutionalNovember 19, 2008 -
T2L2 ready to put Einstein’s theory to the test
The T2L2 instrument on board Jason-2 is working well after a 1st series of tests to compare the DORIS instrument’s clock with atomic clocks here on Earth. Scientists are...
News ObservationNovember 6, 2008 -
COROT detects oscillations in 3 distant stars
CNES’s COROT spacecraft has turned up 3 distant stars surprisingly similar to our own Sun. The discovery is the subject of an article this week in the prestigious American review...
News Sciences InstitutionalNovember 3, 2008