News and Events
-
Argos-4 enters operational service - An...
ObservationNovember 17, 2022 -
ANGELS, France's first industrial...
Five times more powerful and 10 times smaller than its predecessors, ANGELS has been designed to address the current challenges of New Space: miniaturization, scaled-up...
ObservationOctober 13, 2020 -
France-India space cooperation, first Argos4...
ObservationMarch 20, 2019 -
CNES and NEXEYA’S ANGELS nanosatellite on course...
CNES and NEXEYA, who are co-funding and developing ANGELS (Argos Neo on a Generic Economical and Light Satellite), the first series-produced French nanosatellite, have reached a...
ObservationDecember 13, 2018 -
Argos-3 instrument successfully activated on...
ObservationNovember 20, 2018 -
Soyuz successfully orbits Metop-C satellite with...
During the night of 6-7 November, Soyuz accomplished a flawless launch from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, placing the European Metop-C (...
Ariane, ObservationNovember 7, 2018 -
Small Satellites, Systems and Services Symposium
Institutional affairsMay 28, 2018 -
CNES-Eumetsat cooperation Agencies sign agreement...
Monday 27 June in Darmstadt, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Eumetsat Director General Alain Ratier signed a cooperation agreement to fly instruments for the Argos data...
Other fieldJune 28, 2016 -
France-United States space cooperation Speech at...
CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall was invited to the Washington Space Business Roundtable on Friday 29 April to give a presentation on France’s space strategy. In the morning, he...
Institutional affairsMay 3, 2016 -
CNES fetes 30th anniversary of its subsidiary CLS...
CNES’s subsidiary CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites), the satellite operator and world-leading supplier of satellite-based Earth-observation products and services, yesterday...
ObservationApril 8, 2016 -
Sea elephant oceanographers: a 10-year success...
For the last 10 years, more than 200 elephant seals have been patrolling the southern seas wearing some strange headgear: an Argos transmitter instrumented with temperature,...
News Observation InstitutionalMay 7, 2013 -
Argos marks 25 years serving the environment
Formed in 1986 by CNES and Ifremer1, the French institute of marine research and exploration, CLS turned 25 today. Its Argos transmitters and satellite systems are used by...
News Observation InstitutionalMay 5, 2011 -
Solo across the Pacific, tracked by Argos
On 10 May, Serge Jandaud — a cardiologist at the Pasteur clinic in Toulouse — will attempt to row single-handed across the Pacific from Lima (Peru) in the east to Brisbane (...
News Observation InstitutionalMay 6, 2010 -
Argos – Tracking elephant seals to understand the...
Using specially designed Argos transmitters, an international team of researchers has been tracking elephant seals in their feeding grounds, gathering unique information about the...
News Observation InstitutionalApril 14, 2009 -
CNES sets sail with the Vendée Globe
CNES subsidiary CLS will be tracking the skippers in the Vendée Globe single-handed round-the-world yacht race by satellite and providing fleet positions. It will also be testing...
News Observation InstitutionalNovember 19, 2008 -
Go-ahead for Argos-4
CNES and its partners recently decided to upgrade the Argos global satellite-based location and data collection system, which currently serves some 18,000 transmitters operating...
News Observation InstitutionalOctober 14, 2008 -
CNES and the International Polar Year
2007 marks the start of the 4th International Polar Year, officially launched yesterday at the Palais de la Découverte in Paris. The last polar year was in 1957, so this one will...
News Observation InstitutionalDecember 27, 2006 -
Enhanced performance for data collection and...
One has made its name tracking ocean yachtsmen, while the other has helped to save nearly 19,000 lives since 1982. Developed and operated by a network of international partners,...
News Observation InstitutionalApril 12, 2006