18 March 2016
President of ISA Against Avio Takeover
... company’s purchase of the 35 percent of Arianespace owned by the French government, through the French space agency, CNES. Avio currently has a 3.4 percent shareholding in Arianespace, a position that European industry officials agree will grow now...
22 April 2016
Arianespace's Soyuz Launch Scheduled for Later Today
... (the French acronym for: MICROSatellite à trainée Compensée pour l'Observation du Principe d'Equivalence), which was built by the CNES French space agency with assistance from ESA and other partners. The 303-kg. Microscope spacecraft will...
10 October 2018
MASCOT successfully surveys the surface of Ryugu
... before its battery died. Developed by the German Aerospace Centre in cooperation with the French space agency (CNES), last week the scout dropped 51 metres from Hayabusa2 to land safely on the asteroid below – much to the...
25 March 2019
Moon isolation experiment begins in Moscow
... the cosmonauts are either US or Russian citizens, along with NASA and DLR, the French space agency CNES is also participating in this latest study. The European Space Agency (ESA) is expected to join in with the simulated...
24 April 2019
InSight detects first marsquake
... Division director at NASA Headquarters. Provided for InSight by the French space agency, Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES), SEIS has surpassed the team's expectations in terms of its sensitivity, but surprisingly, this momentus audible...
21 February 2020
MMX mission gets green light to land on Phobos
...is contributing a gamma ray and neutron spectrometer, ESA (Europe) is listed as assisting with deep space communication equipment, CNES (France) is building a near-infrared spectrometer, while DLR (Germany) is to design the rover, which could explore...
