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New Gaia star catalogue reveals surprising discoveries
The third Gaia catalogue—Data Release 3 (DR3)—eagerly awaited by the scientific...
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[Replay] Ariane 5 VA257 launch on June 22, 2022
Ariane 5 orbited 2 telecommunications satellites MEASAT-3d and GSAT-24 on...
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[CNESMAG] SWOT:planet water
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Tele-echography service to undergo full-scale...
The 1st robot designed to perform teleoperated ultrasound scans was rolled out in 2003 as a result of research work by Professor Philippe Arbeille at Tours Hospital, France,...
News InstitutionalJanuary 27, 2009 -
New chapter opening for Cospas-Sarsat
20 years after its inception, a new chapter is opening for the international Cospas-Sarsat satellite search-and-rescue programme. On 1 February, it will be making the final...
News Telecommunications InstitutionalJanuary 21, 2009 -
A busy 2 years in space for CoRoT
Thanks to CNES’s CoRoT space telescope, which recently completed its 2nd year of observations, 5 exoplanets have already been identified and scientists are learning more every...
News Sciences InstitutionalJanuary 16, 2009 -
Unsettling time for AMINO in space
The AMINO exobiology experiment supported by CNES was scheduled to be installed on the Russian module of the ISS on 23 December, but the EVA astronauts doing the job had to back-...
News Sciences InstitutionalJanuary 14, 2009 -
Concordiasi : le climat de l’Antarctique
In September and October 2009, 18 drifting balloons will be released to acquire measurements in the stratosphere. Twelve of them will release 600 parachuted dropsondes to...
News InstitutionalJanuary 14, 2009 -
2009 will be the International Year of Astronomy
Declared the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations and UNESCO, 2009 will give professional and amateur astronomers alike a chance to share their passion with...
News InstitutionalJanuary 6, 2009 -
IASI measuring ozone pollution
CNES’s IASI instrument on the MetOp-A satellite has enabled French scientists to retrace an ozone pollution episode from space. This kind of capability will help to improve air...
News Observation InstitutionalDecember 30, 2008 -
Water divining from space
From 17 to 19 November, as part of the International Year of Planet Earth, scientists from all over France got together at UNESCO in Paris to share their experiences. What united...
News InstitutionalDecember 3, 2008 -
AMINO to probe the origins of life
The 3rd exobiology experiment devised by the LISA laboratory in Créteil, France, supported by CNES, lifted off on board a Russian Soyuz launcher on 26 November. Called AMINO, it...
News Sciences InstitutionalDecember 2, 2008 -
Charter aids disaster-hit nations
Founded in 2000 by CNES and ESA, the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters regularly provides free satellite imagery to help nations organize emergency response...
News InstitutionalNovember 24, 2008 -
CNES sets sail with the Vendée Globe
CNES subsidiary CLS will be tracking the skippers in the Vendée Globe single-handed round-the-world yacht race by satellite and providing fleet positions. It will also be testing...
News Observation InstitutionalNovember 19, 2008 -
T2L2 ready to put Einstein’s theory to the test
The T2L2 instrument on board Jason-2 is working well after a 1st series of tests to compare the DORIS instrument’s clock with atomic clocks here on Earth. Scientists are...
News ObservationNovember 6, 2008 -
COROT detects oscillations in 3 distant stars
CNES’s COROT spacecraft has turned up 3 distant stars surprisingly similar to our own Sun. The discovery is the subject of an article this week in the prestigious American review...
News Sciences InstitutionalNovember 3, 2008 -
Jason-2 all set to take satellite altimetry into...
After 4 months of in-orbit commissioning, Jason-2 has entered the operational phase of its mission. The new ocean-observing satellite offers many improvements compared to its...
News Sciences InstitutionalOctober 29, 2008 -
e-CORCE - a webcam for Earth
CNES has come up with an innovative satellite remote-sensing system capable of generating a high-resolution picture of Earth on the Web, refreshed every week. Four patents have...
News InstitutionalOctober 22, 2008 -
Cospas-Sarsat turns 20 in Biarritz
The council of the Cospas-Sarsat international satellite search-and-rescue programme is meeting this year in France, where the 40 member countries will be celebrating the 20th...
News Telecommunications InstitutionalOctober 20, 2008 -
Go-ahead for Argos-4
CNES and its partners recently decided to upgrade the Argos global satellite-based location and data collection system, which currently serves some 18,000 transmitters operating...
News Observation InstitutionalOctober 14, 2008 -
Mars sample return mission taking shape
The international conference organized by CNES and ESA in July, in Paris, provided the occasion to air several scenarios for a future Mars sample return mission. The next step...
News InstitutionalOctober 10, 2008
