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April 26, 2024
Start of the first Ariane 6 launch campaign on the launch pad
   Kourou, April 26, 2024The central core and the two boosters for the first Ariane 6 flight model, an Ariane 62 version, were transferred to and...
April 4, 2024
39th Space Symposium
From 8 to 11 April, CNES will be at the 39th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs to showcase the French civil, military and commercial space...
February 2, 2024
MicroCarb atmospheric CO2 monitoring satellite ready for launch
The first European mission ever designed to monitor carbon fluxes by precisely measuring carbon dioxide, the MicroCarb satellite has reached a key...
January 16, 2024
European CARIOQA project kicks off A quantum-sensing revolution in the making
16 January, the CARIOQA project partners—CNES, German Aerospace Center (DLR), the European Commission, Airbus Defence & Space, GMV and FORTH/...
January 9, 2024
2024, France renews its ambitions as Europe reinvents itself in space
Tuesday 9 January, CNES Chairman & CEO Philippe Baptiste presented his New Year wishes to the press, hailing journalists’ unstinting efforts to...
December 12, 2023
Revisiting regulations for launch range safety at the Guiana Space Centre - CNES consults with European ecosystem
On 7 and 8 December, CNES led a working seminar with the European launcher ecosystem on regulatory changes covering launch range safety at the...
December 5, 2023
CNES’s top takeaways from COP28 - With the world’s space agencies leading the way in climate science
Under the presidency of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate...
November 23, 2023
Successful Ariane 6 core stage long-duration hot-fire test
•    The Ariane 6 launcher has successfully completed its long-duration hot-fire test on its launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport, French Guiana.•   ...
November 22, 2023
France-China space cooperation 13th meeting of French-Chinese space committee
Tuesday 21 November, Philippe Baptiste, Chairman & CEO of CNES, the French space agency, and Zhang Kejian, Administrator of the China National...
November 6, 2023
The CNES, the Pasteur Institute and SupBiotech are ready to send the “Cerebral Ageing” experiment to the International Space Station
 Scheduled for early November, the Cerebral Ageing experiment will depart for the International Space Station (ISS) from Cape Canaveral, Florida,...
October 24, 2023
EUMETSAT joins the Space for Climate Observatory (SCO)
On Tuesday 24th, October 2023, in Darmstadt, Germany, Lionel SUCHET, Chief Operating Officer (CNES), and Phil EVANS, Director General (EUMETSAT)...
October 4, 2023
Vega set to orbit CNES’s NESS nanosatellite with 11 other satellites on 23rd flight
Friday 6 October, Vega will launch from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe’s spaceport, to place into sun-synchronous orbit THEOS-2 (THailand...
September 22, 2023
SWOT International Science Team meeting in Toulouse reveals very promising first results
Led by the French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales) and NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), the SWOT mission...
September 6, 2023
Success of full hot-fire test of Ariane 6 core stage on its launch pad
The Ariane 6 core stage has successfully carried out its first complete hot-fire test on its launch pad, as part of the combined tests campaign...
August 9, 2023
Mars: new evidence of an environment conducive to the emergence of life
Scientists have discovered fossil evidence of a cyclical climate on Mars, with wet and dry seasons like those on Earth, using data from Curiosity...
July 15, 2023
French-Indian space cooperation enters new dimension on visit of India’s Prime Minister for national 14 July celebrations
On the occasion of his visit as guest of honour at France’s national 14 July celebrations, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed space...
July 6, 2023
Ariane 5 successfully launches Heinrich-Hertz and SYRACUSE 4B satellites on final flight
On 5 July, Ariane 5, operated by Arianespace, completed a flawless launch on its 117th flight from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe’s spaceport...
July 3, 2023
Final flight of Ariane 5 set to orbit Heinrich-Hertz and Syracuse 4B satellites
On 4 July, Ariane 5, operated by Arianespace, will lift off on its 117th flight from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, to...
June 21, 2023
CNES and AEB at Le Bourget Paris Air Show
On Wednesday 21st June, 2023, during the 54th edition of the International Paris Air Show, Aluisio VIVEIROS CAMARGO, Director of Planning, Budget...
June 20, 2023
JAXA, CNES and DLR sign cooperation agreement for MMX mission
Rover on the home stretch to the martian moon PhobosThe origin of the martian moons Phobos and Deimos is still an unsolved mystery in planetary...

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