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News, Satellites 26 July 2025

Airbus-built CO3D constellation successfully launched

Airbus-built CO3D constellation successfully launched to map our planet in 3D Toulouse, France, 26 July 2025 – The four Airbus-built CO3D (Constellation Optique 3D) satellites have been successfully placed into orbit…

News, Space 26 July 2025

MicroCarb: Europe’s first mission to monitor

MicroCarb: Europe’s first mission to monitor and map atmospheric carbondioxide successfully launched A joint collaboration between France and the UK to map, on a global scale, the sources and sinks…

Who's Who 26 May 2025

François Jacq – CEO of CNES

François Jacq was appointed Chairman & CEO of Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency. At the cabinet meeting of the French government, Friday 23 May, François Jacq…

SAUDI ARABIA OFFICIALLY OPENS DOMESTIC AVIATION MARKET TO INTERNATIONAL CHARTER FLIGHT OPERATORS AS AGLOBAL AVIATION HUB

News, Space 5 February 2025

CNES and JAXA sign SOLAR-C

CNES and JAXA sign SOLAR-C Implementing Arrangement 3 February 2025, CNES Chairman & CEO Lionel Suchet and Hitoshi Kuninaka, Director General of theInstitute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) at…

News, Space 24 November 2023

Hot fire: Ariane 6 ready to rumble

ESA’s new Ariane 6 rocket passed a major full-scale rehearsal today in preparation for its first flight, when teams on the ground went through a complete launch countdown followed by…

News, Space 25 October 2023

EUMETSAT joins the Space for Climate Observatory

On Tuesday 24th, October 2023, in Darmstadt, Germany, Lionel SUCHET, Chief Operating Officer (CNES), and Phil EVANS, Director General (EUMETSAT) celebrated the adhesion of the European operational satellite agency for…

Challenges, News 16 February 2023

Great sucess for the finals of the 5th edition of ActlnSpace

Great success for the finals of the 5th edition of ActInSpace®, the international competition dedicated to space applications The awards ceremonies for ActInSpace 2022®, the major international hackathon aimed at…

Who's Who 15 June 2022

Nicolas Hengy appointed CNES Chief Financial Officer

Nicolas Hengy has been appointed Chief Financial Officer with a seat on CNES’s Executive Committee, effective 15 June 2022. A former adviser to the Minister for Higher Education, Research and…

Who's Who 16 April 2021

PHILIPPE BAPTISTE APPOINTED CNES PRESIDENT

At its cabinet meeting on Wednesday 14 April, the government appointed Philippe Baptiste as President of the French space agency CNES. Born in 1972, Philippe Baptiste holds a PhD from…

News, Space 12 March 2021

FRANCE-CHINA SPACE COOPERATION CNES PRESIDENT AND CNSA ADMINISTRATOR MEET

Tuesday 9 March, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall held a videoconference meeting with Zhang Kejian, Administrator of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), for a status check of the bilateral…

It also optimizes the performance of future high-data-rate links for science and Earth-observation missions

News, Space 5 March 2021

CNES AND ONERA LONGSTANDING PARTNERS AND WORLD LEADERS IN RADIOFREQUENCY PROPAGATION RESEARCH

When sizing space telecommunications systems, the ability to counter adverse atmospheric effects on ground to-satellite communication links is a key competitive advantage. It also optimizes the performance of future high-data-rate…

News, Space 16 February 2021

France-United States space cooperation discussions between CNES and NASA

Thursday 11 February, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall held a videoconference meeting with Steve Jurczyk, recently appointed Acting Administrator of NASA after the investiture of President Joe Biden on 20…

News, Space 11 February 2021

First Airbus Eurostar Neo satellite is born

Both main satellite modules successfully mated Eurostar Neo: increased payload capacity and more efficient power and thermal control systems for video connectivity Toulouse, 12 February 2021 – Airbus Defence and…

Industry, News 11 February 2021

SPACE ECOSYSTEM ADAPTING TO HEALTH SITUATION FRENCH NEWSPACE NOW A REALITY

From the outset of the COVID-19 health crisis, CNES has instituted teleworking across the agency in line with government guidance. This policy has been able to build on existing teleworking…

News, Space 28 January 2021

CADMOS actively preparing Thomas Pesquet’s alpha mission

The CADMOS centre for the development of microgravity applications and space operations at CNES’s Toulouse Space Centre (CST) prepared and monitored the seven experiments that the agency conceived for Thomas…

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Airbus-built CO3D constellation successfully launched

MicroCarb: Europe’s first mission to monitor

François Jacq – CEO of CNES

CNES and JAXA sign SOLAR-C

Hot fire: Ariane 6 ready to rumble

EUMETSAT joins the Space for Climate Observatory

Great sucess for the finals of the 5th edition of ActlnSpace

Nicolas Hengy appointed CNES Chief Financial Officer

PHILIPPE BAPTISTE APPOINTED CNES PRESIDENT

FRANCE-CHINA SPACE COOPERATION CNES PRESIDENT AND CNSA ADMINISTRATOR MEET

CNES AND ONERA LONGSTANDING PARTNERS AND WORLD LEADERS IN RADIOFREQUENCY PROPAGATION RESEARCH

France-United States space cooperation discussions between CNES and NASA

First Airbus Eurostar Neo satellite is born

SPACE ECOSYSTEM ADAPTING TO HEALTH SITUATION FRENCH NEWSPACE NOW A REALITY

CADMOS actively preparing Thomas Pesquet’s alpha mission

Airbus reports share buyback transactions 29 Sept. to 3 Oct. 2025

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