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PLD Space aims to become the first private company to launch from the ELM-Diamant area of the historic European port, owned by CNES, the French space agency.
U-Space has major contracts already signed with CNES and Safran.
U-Space has signed major contracts with leading players such as CNES and Safran in the small satellite manufacturing market.
CNES published a call for proposals in early September that revealed the inaugural flight of the Callisto demonstrator slipped from 2026 to 2027.
CNES published a call for proposals in early September that revealed the inaugural flight of Callisto slipped from 2026 to 2027.
CNES updated the FROG project page in 2024 to include a projected inaugural flight of the FROG-H demonstrator in early 2025, a flight that did not occur.
France and Germany are the two largest contributors to ESA, with CNES contributing approximately 1 billion euros annually.
CNES, Airbus Defence and Space, and OGS Technologies successfully completed one year of in-orbit operations with the TELEO demonstrator.
The European Space Agency and the joint team including ArianeGroup, Arianespace, and the French space agency CNES expect the Ariane 6 inaugural launch to take place in the first two weeks of July.
ESA, CNES, and ArianeGroup are targeting the first launch of Ariane 6 between June 15 and July 31, 2024.
ESA, CNES, and ArianeGroup are targeting the first launch of Ariane 6 between 15 June and 31 July 2024.
ESA, CNES, and ArianeGroup are targeting the inaugural launch of Ariane 6 between 15 June and 31 July 2024.
ESA, CNES, and ArianeGroup are targeting the first launch of Ariane 6 between mid-June and end of July 2024.
ESA, CNES, and ArianeGroup are targeting the first launch of Ariane 6 between mid-June and the end of July 2024.
TEKEVER secured a contract with the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French Space Agency, to test new Inter-Satellite Link (ISL) concepts using GAMALINK.
On 2020-11-16, Vega’s upper stage malfunctioned eight minutes after liftoff from Europe’s French Guiana spaceport, resulting in the loss of the Spanish SEOSAT-Ingenio satellite and the 175-kilogram TARANIS satellite built by the French Space Agency CNES.
Rocket Factory Augsburg plans to launch from the Diamant launch complex at the Guiana Space Centre in collaboration with French space agency CNES.
Hemeria supplied subsystems for the O3b and Iridium Next constellations prior to moving into complete satellite manufacturing in 2017 with support from the French space agency CNES.
Most of CNES’s 2,500 employees are working remotely instead of at the agency’s facilities across mainland France and French Guiana.
PLD Space intends to launch Miura 5 rockets from Europe’s Guiana Space Center in South America and has forged an agreement with the French space agency CNES to pursue that goal.