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 height of water bodies and the ocean around the globe, climbed to its final orbit. CNES teams...
News ObservationJuly 31, 2023 -
[Press] Space cooperation for climate science -...
After more than a year in assembly, integration and testing at Thales Alenia Space’s facility in Cannes, France, for the French and U.S. space agencies CNES and NASA, the SWOT...
News ObservationSeptember 7, 2022 -
[CNESMAG] SWOT:planet water
Our new issue is now available!
News ObservationAugust 2, 2022 -
International Satellite to Track Impacts of Small...
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will explore how the ocean absorbs atmospheric heat and carbon, moderating global temperatures and climate change.
News ObservationMay 11, 2022 -
Space hydrology: brace yoursleves, data is coming
An international research team just published the very first database mapping our planet’s humid areas and their evolution over time, from 1993 to 2007, with a 90 m resolution....
News SciencesMay 29, 2017 -
Press Release: Readying for the UNISPACE+50...
The first High-Level Forum on ‘Space as a driver for socio-economic sustainable development’, organized by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) in the run-up...
News ObservationNovember 22, 2016 -
Press Release: France-United Kingdom space...
Thursday 6 October in London, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall met Katherine Courtney, the Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA), at the Department for...
News ObservationOctober 17, 2016 -
Press Release: CNES’s Science Programmes...
CNES’s Science Programmes Committee (CPS) met on Wednesday 21 September at the agency’s Head Office in Paris Les Halles. The committee’s chief purpose is to advise the CNES Board...
News SciencesSeptember 22, 2016 -
El Niño: satellites see red
The wild child of the Pacific is shaping up to be a monster this winter, comparable to the 1997-1998 episode and possibly even worse. The story in pictures.
News Observation General public, Institutional, Specialist public, Science and technologyDecember 1, 2015 -
Press Release: CNES and Thales Alenia Space sign...
Tuesday 29 September at the Toulouse Space Centre (CST), CNES and Thales Alenia Space (TAS) signed the contract covering phase C/D of the Poseidon 3-C radar altimeter to be...
News ObservationSeptember 29, 2015 -
Jean-Yves Le Gall: “In 2015, CNES will be making...
Monday 5 January, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall delivered his New Year wishes to members of the French and international press in the Salle de l’Espace at Paris Les Halles....
News Ariane, Observation, Sciences, Telecommunications, Defence, Institutional affairsDecember 11, 2014 -
Press Release: Meeting of CNES Board of Directors...
Meeting today for the first time in 2014, the CNES Board of Directors reached decisions on the next phases of the SWOT and CERES programmes. The Board also examined the Agency...
News Observation, DefenceMarch 31, 2014 -
Press Release: NASA Administrator Charles F....
Charles F. Bolden, Administrator of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), met CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall today at CNES head office in Paris. The two...
News SciencesJanuary 28, 2014
