CNES NEWS

CNES and Fondation Ailes de France join forces to offer grants to young students pursuing space-related projects

JOB & CAREER | AEROCONTACT | Tue, Feb 2^nd 2021 |

Monday 1st of February, the Fondation Ailes de France is kicking off its SPACE Grants 2021 campaign in partnership wi...

Airbus Defence and Space prepares the future of Earth observation from space

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Mon, Sept 14^th 2015 |

Airbus Defence and Space has just signed a feasibility study contract with CNES, the French space agency, for future French space-based civil and military Earth observ...

CNES and ONERA step up cooperation

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Fri, Oct 10^th 2014 |

A meeting of CNES and ONERA, the French aeronautics, space and defence research laboratory, took place Wednesday 8 October at CNES’s head office, attended by CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and ONERA Chairman & CEO B...

Rosetta to deploy lander to the surface of comet on November 12

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Mon, Sept 29^th 2014 |

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission will deploy its lander, Philae, to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November. Philae’s landing site,...

Rosetta and comet Churymov Gerasimenko - Five landing sites selected for Philae

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Tue, Aug 26^th 2014 |

Two and a half months before the long-awaited touchdown of Philae, the Rosetta spacecraft’s small lander, CNES convened scores of scientists from CNES, ESA and DLR plu...

UAP workshop at CNES brings together UFO experts and scientists for the first time

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Mon, Jul 28^th 2014 |

On 8 and 9 July, CNES brought together scientists and UFO (1) experts in Paris for a workshop devoted to methods and ...

CoRoT reaches end of mission life after more than seven years in orbit

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Thu, Jun 19^th 2014 |

After more than seven years in orbit, the CoRoT satellite has reached the end of its mission life. Decommissioning operations begun in December last year, driven by en...

Space meeting in Prague

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Thu, Jun 12^th 2014 |

Talks with Mr des Dorides and Mr Weissenberg focused essentially on issues related to European satellite navigation programmes, particularly future Galileo services. Headquartered in Prague, GSA is responsible for the...

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly to the International Space Station in 2016

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Mon, Mar 17^th 2014 |

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has been assigned to a long-duration mission on the International Space Station, it was...

Long-Running NASA/CNES Ocean Satellite Takes Final Bow

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Wed, Jul 3^rd 2013 |

WASHINGTON, July 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The curtain has come down on a superstar of the satellite oceanography world that played the "Great Blue Way" of th...