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Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

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ArianeGroup CEO André-Hubert Roussel and CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall signed an agreement preparatory to testing the Prometheus rocket engine at the Vernon site in Normandy.

Mentioned as: CNESOrg RelationshipJan 17, 2021ArianeGroup + CNES Sign Agreement For Testing Of ESA’s Prometheus Rocket Engine

Exotrail signed contracts in 2020 worth more than 1,000,000 EUR with customers including the European Space Agency, the French space agency CNES, and AAC Clyde Space.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Org RelationshipJan 12, 2021Exotrail demonstrates miniature Hall-effect thruster in orbit

ANYWAVES received an accreditation scheme from the French Space Agency (CNES) for its S-band TT&C antenna, X-band payload telemetry antenna, and GNSS L1/E1 band antenna in late 2020.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Org RelationshipJan 6, 2021Accreditation By CNES For ANYWAVES Satellite Constellation Antennas

CNES awarded the CSO contract to Airbus at the end of 2010 while acting on behalf of the French Armament General Directorate (DGA).

Mentioned as: cnesOrg RelationshipJan 4, 2021Airbus-built CSO-2 French military Earth Observation satellite launched successfully

The CNES-ANYWAVES project is divided into three steps, with the first step planned to last 12 months and dedicated to manufacturing a Reflectarray antenna demonstrator.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralDec 18, 2020ANYWAVES enters into development of Reflectarray technology for nanosat constellations

The Reflectarray that ANYWAVES will develop for CNES will operate from X to Ka band.

Mentioned as: CNESOrg RelationshipDec 18, 2020ANYWAVES enters into development of Reflectarray technology for nanosat constellations

CNES launched the call for tender to demonstrate French industrial feasibility of Reflectarray technology up to the Ka-band inspired by NASA’s MarCO-A and MarCO-B CubeSats equipped with X-band Reflectarray technology.

Mentioned as: CNESOrg RelationshipDec 18, 2020ANYWAVES enters into development of Reflectarray technology for nanosat constellations

ANYWAVES was selected from a CNES call for tender to develop the Reflectarray solution.

Mentioned as: CNESOrg RelationshipDec 18, 2020ANYWAVES enters into development of Reflectarray technology for nanosat constellations

The project with CNES was launched on 2020-12-16.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralDec 18, 2020ANYWAVES enters into development of Reflectarray technology for nanosat constellations

ANYWAVES was selected from a CNES call for tender to develop a folding Reflectarray antenna.

Mentioned as: CNESOrg RelationshipDec 17, 2020CNES Selects ANYWAVES For Reflectarray Antenna For Smallsats Demo

The Vega VV17 mission was carrying two payloads: SEOSAT-Ingenio for the European Space Agency (ESA) and TARANIS for France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES).

Mentioned as: CNESTechnical ProductDec 17, 2020An Independent Inquiry Commission Releases Their Conclusions Regarding The Arianespace VV17 Mission Loss

Data collected by the CO3D constellation will be fed into an Airbus digital processing system that integrates advanced algorithms developed by CNES to quickly produce precise 3D maps.

Mentioned as: CNESTechnical ProductDec 9, 2020Arianespace to launch four-satellite Airbus CO3D constellation aboard Vega C

Airbus and CNES each invested approximately 100,000,000 EUR in the CO3D project.

Mentioned as: cnesNarrative GeneralDec 9, 2020Arianespace to launch four-satellite Airbus CO3D constellation aboard Vega C

The CNES and Airbus partnership for CO3D will deliver stereoscopic images of the Earth at a resolution of 0.5 m with a high revisit rate.

Mentioned as: CNESOrg RelationshipDec 8, 2020Airbus + CNES Developed CO3D Constellation Launch To Be Handled By Arianespace

Arianespace and Airbus have signed the launch contract for the CO3D constellation developed with the French CNES space agency.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Org RelationshipDec 8, 2020Airbus + CNES Developed CO3D Constellation Launch To Be Handled By Arianespace

EUMETSAT will work with ESA, NASA, NOAA, CNES, and scientists from Europe and the United States to calibrate Sentinel-6 products and validate the end-to-end system.

Mentioned as: CNESOrg RelationshipNov 24, 2020EUMETSAT Now Handling All Space Ops For The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite

CNES intends to build a second TARANIS satellite and formed a task force with until late January 2021 to develop a TARANIS 2 proposal.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Org RelationshipNov 20, 2020Avio CEO promises Vega’s rapid return to flight as CNES plots replacement satellite

TARANIS, or Tool for the Analysis of RAdiation from lightNIng and Sprites, was built by the French space agency CNES to study electromagnetic phenomena in the upper atmosphere created by thunderstorms.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralNov 20, 2020Avio CEO promises Vega’s rapid return to flight as CNES plots replacement satellite

DLR and the French space agency CNES built the MASCOT lander that was part of JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission and touched down on asteroid Ryugu in October 2018.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralNov 20, 2020Germany joins JAXA’s low-cost deep space test mission

TARANIS was launched for the French CNES space agency and is part of CNES’ Myriade small satellite family.

Mentioned as: Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)Narrative GeneralNov 17, 2020UPDATE: Mission Failure Arianespace’s Vega VV17 — SEOSAT-Ingenio / TARANIS: Lost
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