20 October 2008

Since 2006, CNES engineers engaged in long-term research have been mulling an idea: might it not be possible, with tomorrow’s technologies, to take pictures of the entire globe in unrivalled detail and disseminate them directly over the Internet? For although Google Earth works very well, its resolution varies greatly from one region to another and its imagery is updated randomly.

17 October 2008

In over 20 years of loyal service, the satellites in the Cospas-Sarsat programme have saved no fewer than 24,700 lives around the world (at end 2007).

10 October 2008

CNES operates the Argos global location and data collection system, dedicated to studying and protecting the environment, in partnership with NOAA* and more recently with Eumetsat** and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

6 October 2008

“We achieved what we set out to do,” affirms planetologist Francis Rocard, in charge at CNES of organizing with ESA this 1st gathering devoted to a future Mars sample return mission.

6 October 2008

"We were taken by surprise when we found this massive object orbiting so close to its parent star," enthuses Magalie Deleuil from the LAM astrophysics laboratory in Marseille, who is leading the science team that made the discovery. She added, "COROT-exo-3b is really unique - we’re still debating its nature."

29 September 2008

18 September 2008

“As it will be the ATV’s 1st atmospheric re-entry, we want to track it closely so we can refine our models,” said Burkhard Jelineck, ATV Flight Director at CNES.

29 August 2008

Officially integrated into Europe’s space strategy in November 2001, GMES is also the main European component of the international Global Earth Observation System of Systems programme (GEOSS).

21 August 2008

Like the other planets COROT has discovered, CoRoT-Exo-4b is roughly the same size as Jupiter and is close to its parent star. Unusually though, the planet and star form a system with unprecedented dynamic properties.