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 wins award for satellite collision risk...
16 May, CNES engineer François Laporte, based at the Toulouse Space Centre, won the Best Paper of Symposium award at Space Ops 2008 for his contribution on operational management...
News InstitutionalJune 23, 2008 -
Jason-2 all set for the off
The Jason-2 oceanography satellite is now in the home straight and set for launch Friday 20 June. Before reaching final orbit, the satellite will go through a sequence of steps...
News InstitutionalJune 18, 2008 -
A leap forward for oceanography
Over the last 15 years, altimetry satellites have been poring over the oceans in every detail, collecting more data in 10 days than could be gathered over several centuries by...
News InstitutionalJune 10, 2008 -
Charting and forecasting ocean conditions
Satellite altimetry is the only space-based technology capable of penetrating below the ocean surface. This capability will benefit a broad range of ocean forecasting applications...
News InstitutionalJune 3, 2008 -
COROT discovers at least 2 new exoplanets
COROT recently discovered 2 new gas-giant exoplanets and an unknown celestial object, taking the total of exoplanets it has found to 4. Other signals detected by the satellite...
News Sciences InstitutionalMay 30, 2008 -
Jason-2: a family affair
Jason-2’s main mission is to take over from its predecessor Jason-1 and assure data continuity. But the latest in the series of oceanography satellites is also carrying some new...
News Observation InstitutionalMay 27, 2008 -
COROT discovers unusual exoplanet
The COROT space telescope has revealed the existence of CoRoT-Exo-4b, a new and rather unusual extrasolar planet. Its orbital motion appears to be synchronous with the period of...
News Sciences InstitutionalMay 21, 2008 -
Jason-2 takes to the air
Since 1992, altimetry satellites have significantly enhanced our knowledge of the world’s oceans. The Jason-2 satellite is all set to take over the ocean-observing mission of its...
News InstitutionalMay 7, 2008 -
EPM on Columbus working like a charm
The human physiology experiment module on the Columbus orbital laboratory was successfully activated Saturday by Léopold Eyharts. This is good news for the CADMOS facility in...
News Other field InstitutionalFebruary 26, 2008 -
Jules Verne embarks on an extraordinary journey
Sunday 9 March, on its 37th launch—the first in its ES-ATV configuration—Ariane 5 successfully placed the European Jules Verne ATV into elliptical Earth orbit. In 3 weeks’ time,...
News InstitutionalFebruary 25, 2008 -
ATV campaign at Guiana Space Centre draws to a...
With just 2 weeks to go to the 1st flight of the ATV—Europe’s 1st uncrewed cargo vehicle designed to resupply the International Space Station (ISS)—from the Guiana Space Centre (...
News InstitutionalFebruary 25, 2008 -
Exobiology: from the Cosmos to the laboratory
After 12 days in orbit, the Foton capsule landed back on Earth in Kazakhstan 26 September with its 43 scientific experiments intact. French exobiologists have since started...
News InstitutionalDecember 6, 2007 -
Launch no earlier than 2 January for Columbus...
The European Columbus laboratory will have to wait at least 1 more month before launching to the ISS. Sunday 9 December, a persistent malfunction of a sensor in the external fuel...
News InstitutionalDecember 4, 2007 -
A new crisis management tool to aid Darfur...
After several months of tests, the Emergesat humanitarian relief container recently departed for Chad on its 1st mission to establish high-data-rate communications links and...
News InstitutionalNovember 19, 2007 -
Emergesat debuts with Darfur refugees
The Emergesat humanitarian relief container was dispatched last week on its 1st operational mission to Chad, where it will be used for at least 3 months at a camp for Darfur...
News InstitutionalNovember 19, 2007 -
Columbus soon to enter service
6 December, the U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis is set to lift off for the International Space Station (ISS) with a new key element of the giant orbital Meccano set: the European...
News Other field InstitutionalOctober 24, 2007 -
Jules Verne ATV mission on the starting blocks
After a 12-day voyage across the Atlantic, the Jules Verne ATV*—the first fully automatic uncrewed cargo vessel built in Europe—has arrived safely at the Guyana Space Centre (CSG...
News InstitutionalAugust 3, 2007 -
ATV - the European ISS resupply ship
The Jules Verne, the first of Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicles designed to ferry supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), arrived at the Guiana Space Centre in...
News InstitutionalAugust 3, 2007