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Still a slim chance of restoring contact with...
Although Philae remains a castaway on its comet more than 200 million km from Earth, there is still a chance that contact with ESA’s Rosetta mission lander might be restored.
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Teachers and educatorsFebruary 12, 2016 -
Jason-3 approaching final operating orbit
Launched 17 January from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, the Jason-3 oceanography satellite, controlled by CNES teams in Toulouse, is now in its orbital positioning phase,...
News Observation, Sciences Specialist public, Science and technologyFebruary 8, 2016 -
JWST instruments are coming in from the cold
After being tested at extremely low temperatures for more than two months, the four instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope are preparing to come in from the cold.
News SciencesFebruary 4, 2016 -
Strong magnetic fields discovered in majority of...
An international collaboration, involving the Astrophysics Department-AIM Laboratory of CEA-IRFU, managed to determine, from asteroseismology, that up to 65% of stars more massive...
News SciencesJanuary 21, 2016 -
Jason-3 in orbit: the ocean odyssey continues
Jason-3 was successfully launched Sunday 17 January from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the United States. The oceanography satellite is now under the control of CNES’s engineers in...
News Observation, Sciences General public, InstitutionalJanuary 17, 2016 -
Chances of restoring contact with Philae fade
There’s still no response from Philae after ESA recently commanded its reaction wheel to spin in an attempt to move the lander.
News Sciences General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyJanuary 14, 2016 -
Live : Jason-3 to launch 17 January 2016
The Jason-3 oceanography satellite is now scheduled to launch Sunday 17 January at 10:42 EPSDT (19:42 CET) from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), California. Follow the launch...
News Sciences Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyJanuary 13, 2016 -
CNES in 2016 : "Innovation & Inspiration...
“In 2016, CNES will be a pivotal player shaping the future of space” Monday 4 January, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall delivered his New Year wishes to members of the French and...
News Institutional affairs General public, InstitutionalJanuary 4, 2016 -
France takes up chair of Cospas-Sarsat Council
Meeting last week in Montreal, Canada, the Cospas-Sarsat Council appointed France as its chair, effective 11 December for a year, in the person of Bruno Chazal, France’s...
News Telecommunications InstitutionalDecember 21, 2015 -
Jason-3 to launch 17 January 2016
The Jason-3 oceanography satellite is now scheduled to launch Sunday 17 January at 10:42 EPSDT (19:42 CET) from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), California, and the launch...
News Sciences Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyDecember 17, 2015 -
SPOT 5 makes its final curtain call
Friday 11 December 2015 at 19:29, the SPOT 5 satellite sent back its last packet of telemetry.
News Observation Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyDecember 15, 2015 -
Thierry Mandon at CNES Head Office to sign...
Tuesday 15 December, Thierry Mandon, Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research, visited CNES’s Head Office to sign the multi-year agreement setting the agency’s...
News Sciences InstitutionalDecember 15, 2015 -
COP21: CNES and DLR reaffirm commitment to...
CNES and its German counterpart DLR met on Tuesday 8 December 2015 at Le Bourget to reaffirm their commitment to jointly developing the MEthane Remote sensing LIdar missioN (...
News Sciences General public, InstitutionalDecember 8, 2015 -
COP21: Ségolène Royal and Thierry Mandon present...
On the occasion of the launch by France and the United States of the ‘Innovation Mission’, Ségolène Royal presented the French MicroCarb microsatellite project developed by CNES...
News ObservationDecember 8, 2015 -
El Niño: satellites see red
The wild child of the Pacific is shaping up to be a monster this winter, comparable to the 1997-1998 episode and possibly even worse. The story in pictures.
News Observation General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyDecember 1, 2015 -
FLEX mission to be next ESA Earth Explorer
ESA's Member States have selected FLEX as the eighth Earth Explorer mission, upon recommendation from the Earth Science Advisory Committee.
News Observation Specialist public, Science and technologyNovember 23, 2015 -
Rover egress tests in Toulouse
This week a simulation stretching between France (SEROM in CNES Toulouse) and the Netherlands will let ESA’s Planetary Robotics Laboratory test such an ‘egress’ scenario.
News Sciences InstitutionalOctober 28, 2015 -
Exomars 2018 should land on Oxia Planum
On October 21 2015, Oxia Planum has been preselected as the primary candidate for the landing site of the ExoMars 2018 mission.
News Sciences Specialist public, Science and technologyOctober 26, 2015
