July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
... (FRS) in Paris. He has a wide experience in the space industry, including as Director General of the French space agency CNES (1997- 2002), chairman of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, UN COPUOS (June 2006...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
... are already underway, such as Microcarb, a carbon dioxide monitoring mission led by the French space agency CNES and the European observation programme, Copernicus. Sentinel-5P tropospheric nitrogen dioxide measurements over Europe, Africa, Middle...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... dimensions of the life sciences. Since 2001 he has served as ethics advisor to the Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES), the French space agency. Dr Arnould has served as adjunct faculty with the International Space University (ISU...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
... Gaillard (AgroParisTech, France) for providing valuable data used in this article and wish to acknowledge Dr Jacques Arnould (CNES, France) for his helpful comments. Editor’s note One of ROOM’s aims within the space community is to encourage...
07 January 2016
France and Germany May Withdraw from ISS in 2020
... commitment levels of the ISS. In a January 4th statement, Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the French space agency, CNES, said that France would not confirm its official position on the ISS post-2020 until it had...
18 January 2016
Falcon 9 Launches Successfully, Though First Stage Landing Fails
... in the U.S. and Europe, including NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the French space agency CNES and European weather satellite operator Eumetsat. The 510-kilogram satellite will be placed into a near-polar...
