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...
19 May 2016
GLIS 2016: How Space Contributes to a Better World?
... the Director of the UN Office for Outer Space, Simonetta di Pippo, the President of the French Space Agency CNES, Jean-Yves LeGall, the Director of eHealth and telemedicine at Geneva University Hospitals, Professor Antoine Geissbuhler, the...
08 June 2016
GLIS 2016: A New Era of Connectivity through Space
... the COP 21 Agreement and the contribution of space technologies to its implementation presented by Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of CNES and IAF President Elect and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development presented by Simonetta di Pippo, Director...
14 April 2017
The Development and Prospect of China's Space Activities, the importance of the International Space Exploration Coordination Group, and the Role of African Space Nations in Global Space Exploration at GLEX 2017
... Cooperation for Space Exploration – The Importance of The International Space Exploration Coordination Group. 15 Space Agencies (ASI, CNES, CNSA, CSA, CSIRO, DLR, ESA, ISRO, JAXA, KARI, NASA, NSAU, Roscosmos, UAESA, UKSA) are active...
23 April 2018
Impossible Horizon: The Essence of Space Exploration
The French space agency CNES doesn’t make a big deal of the fact that it has employed an ethics advisor for many years, but it’s ...
02 October 2021
European-Russian Space Cooperation
... government [in 1961], which de Gaulle concluded by saying ‘just do it!’ before walking out”. As a result, the French space agency CNES was established by the end of that year, whereas, as the author points out with some chagrin, “Britain...
