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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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 -
Jason-2 all set to take satellite altimetry into...
After 4 months of in-orbit commissioning, Jason-2 has entered the operational phase of its mission. The new ocean-observing satellite offers many improvements compared to its...
News Sciences InstitutionalOctober 29, 2008 -
e-CORCE - a webcam for Earth
CNES has come up with an innovative satellite remote-sensing system capable of generating a high-resolution picture of Earth on the Web, refreshed every week. Four patents have...
News InstitutionalOctober 22, 2008 -
Cospas-Sarsat turns 20 in Biarritz
The council of the Cospas-Sarsat international satellite search-and-rescue programme is meeting this year in France, where the 40 member countries will be celebrating the 20th...
News Telecommunications InstitutionalOctober 20, 2008 -
Go-ahead for Argos-4
CNES and its partners recently decided to upgrade the Argos global satellite-based location and data collection system, which currently serves some 18,000 transmitters operating...
News Observation InstitutionalOctober 14, 2008 -
Mars sample return mission taking shape
The international conference organized by CNES and ESA in July, in Paris, provided the occasion to air several scenarios for a future Mars sample return mission. The next step...
News InstitutionalOctober 10, 2008 -
Space in Strasbourg
Strasbourg is the archetypal European city, making it the natural choice to host a large-scale space event during France’s turn at the helm of the EU presidency. This operation...
News InstitutionalOctober 7, 2008 -
COROT discovers a new stellar oddity
CNES’s space telescope has discovered a new object so exotic that astronomers aren’t sure whether to call it a planet. Named COROT-Exo-3b, the oddity is about the size of Jupiter...
News Sciences InstitutionalOctober 6, 2008 -
ATV takes its final dive
After 7 months in space, the Jules Verne ATV has completed its mission after a flawless destructive re-entry guided by the ATV Control Centre at CNES’s facility in Toulouse,...
News InstitutionalSeptember 30, 2008 -
ATV prepares for final moments
Après 6 mois de bons et loyaux services, l’ATV Jules Verne va tirer sa révérence. La scène se déroulera le 29 septembre prochain au dessus du Pacifique sud.
News InstitutionalSeptember 23, 2008 -
GMES in Lille on 16 and 17 September
The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme, one of Europe’s flagship projects alongside Galileo, will be in the spotlight for two days in September at the...
News InstitutionalAugust 31, 2008 -
Jason-2 delivers its first global maps
The first global ocean maps delivered by Jason-2 compare very closely to those obtained by its predecessor Jason-1. A real bonus for the teams calibrating the satellite’s...
News Observation InstitutionalAugust 7, 2008 -
Toulouse takes the pulse of Jason-2
During the night of 3-4 July, the Jason-2 oceanography satellite reached its final operational orbit at an altitude of 1,336 km. Positioning operations were conducted from the...
News Observation InstitutionalAugust 6, 2008 -
Rosetta encounters a rare asteroid
The European Rosetta probe is set to encounter a small asteroid called Steins on 5 September. This flyby—halfway to the probe’s ultimate target, comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko—will...
News InstitutionalAugust 6, 2008 -
1st Pleiades telescope in sight
With delivery of the 1st Pleiades telescope set for 31 July, the ORFEO Earth-observation programme is advancing apace. The French-built optical component of this system will...
News Observation InstitutionalAugust 1, 2008 -
Science teams to the fore
Every 2 years, CNES’s COSPAR report reviews advances in space science research. The latest report was given to attendees at the 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly held in Montreal,...
News InstitutionalAugust 1, 2008