News and Events
![[CNESMAG] 60 years for the future](https://msl-mission.cnes.fr/sites/default/files/styles/vignette/public/drupal/202111/image/is_cnesmag-90-vignette.jpg?itok=Ns2yWaQj)
![[CNESMAG] Innovation:boosting French expertise](https://msl-mission.cnes.fr/sites/default/files/styles/vignette/public/drupal/202202/image/is_cnesmag-91-visuel.jpg?itok=rzfcisXj)
![[CNESMAG] Galileo:a constellation of services](https://msl-mission.cnes.fr/sites/default/files/styles/vignette/public/drupal/202205/image/is_cnesmag-92-couv-sans-texte.jpg?itok=e2CCfSaD)
-
[PRESS] Jean-Yves Le Gall of France has been...
The new chairship starts on 1 July 2017.
News Institutional affairsMarch 16, 2017 -
[PRESS] French Space Operations Act: Very...
Six years after the French Space Operations Act (FSOA) came into effect, CNES brought together space stakeholders today to analyse its impacts in light of the latest evolutions in...
News Institutional affairsMarch 15, 2017 -
[PRESS]Ségolène Royal announces launch of...
Friday 10 March, Ségolène Royal, Minister for the Environment, Energy and Maritime Affairs, in charge of international climate relations, and Louis Schweizer, the Commissioner...
News Institutional affairsMarch 10, 2017 -
[Replay] Vega mission to orbit Sentinel-2B...
Monday 6 March, Vega lifted off from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana carrying Sentinel-2B, the fourth satellite of the Copernicus constellation. The launch, conducted on...
News TelecommunicationsMarch 7, 2017 -
[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
