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Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

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CNES coordinated the programming of French satellites to provide images of the disaster areas as quickly as possible.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralMar 17, 2025Earthquakes in Turkey, first elements of scientific analysis

The operation of the rover will be managed by control centers in Toulouse (CNES) and Cologne (DLR) at the Microgravity User Support Center.

Mentioned as: CNESOrg RelationshipMar 13, 2025Asteroidensonde nahm Marsmond Deimos ins Visier

The DLR, in collaboration with the French space agency CNES, is contributing to the MMX mission by providing the 25-kilogram rover Idefix.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralMar 13, 2025Asteroidensonde nahm Marsmond Deimos ins Visier

The French-U.S. SWOT mission, developed by CNES in partnership with NASA, measures water heights across the globe's land surfaces.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralMar 10, 2025SWOT studies flood extent

The French-U.S. SWOT mission is led by CNES and NASA and is taking hydrology into the realm of satellite altimetry.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralMar 10, 2025SWOT aiding river navigation

The SuperCam instrument was developed with contributions from CNES, CNRS, LANL (USA), the University of Valladolid (Spain), and various universities.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralFeb 27, 2025Perseverance: half a million laser shots for SuperCam on Mars!

The SuperCam instrument is operated alternately by American and French teams from the FOCSE control center at CNES in Toulouse.

Mentioned as: CNESTechnical ProductFeb 27, 2025Perseverance: half a million laser shots for SuperCam on Mars!

The CSO-3 military observation satellite was launched on behalf of the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) and the French space agency (CNES).

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralFeb 19, 2025Ariane 6 performs its first commercial flight with successful launch of CSO-3 satellite (VA263)

CSO-3 is the 46th satellite launched for the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) and CNES.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralFeb 19, 2025Ariane 6 performs its first commercial flight with successful launch of CSO-3 satellite (VA263)

Lionel Suchet is appointed interim CEO of CNES effective January 6, 2025.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJan 13, 2025Lionel Suchet appointed interim CEO of CNES

Lionel Suchet has been Deputy CEO of CNES since August 28, 2017.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJan 13, 2025Lionel Suchet appointed interim CEO of CNES

Lionel Suchet has been named acting Chairman and CEO of CNES.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralJan 13, 2025Lionel Suchet appointed interim CEO of CNES

CNES, Airbus Defence and Space, and OGS Technologies successfully completed one year of in-orbit operations with the TELEO demonstrator.

Mentioned as: CNESTechnical ProductDec 12, 2024TELEO and FrOGS : a made in France optical solution for very high throughput telecommunications

FrOGS is the optical station located at the Côte d'Azur Observatory, designed and built for CNES by a French industrial consortium.

Mentioned as: cnesNarrative GeneralDec 12, 2024TELEO and FrOGS : a made in France optical solution for very high throughput telecommunications

Yoël Zérah developed a new method during his PhD at CESBIO, supervised by Jordi Inglada from CNES and Silvia Valero from IRD.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralNov 8, 2024[Tech] A new machine learning method to estimate vegetation features from Sentinel-2

The Data Campus works primarily on CNES projects and designs, produces, or commissions data processing and distribution systems.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralSep 27, 2024What is the Data Campus?

The Data Campus was created within the CNES Technical and Digital Department to produce high-quality space data.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralSep 27, 2024What is the Data Campus?

In 2022, CNES decided to create a new initiative around the challenges of space data.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralSep 27, 2024What is the Data Campus?

The GEODES project serves as the single platform for CNES Earth observation products and facilitates user collaboration on Earth observation projects.

Mentioned as: CNESTechnical ProductSep 27, 2024What is the Data Campus?

The Ariane 6 Launcher Task Force consists of top management from ESA, CNES, ArianeGroup, and Arianespace.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralSep 16, 2024Ariane 6 joint update report | 16/09/2024
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