26 September 2005
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Calipso to launch end October
Strateole-Vorcore campaign studies the Antarctic ozone layer
CryoSat all set to monitor sea ice
23 August 2005
Venus Express readying for the off
10 August 2005
Functional tests successfully completed
The Venus Express spacecraft recently completed development and integration at Intespace in Toulouse, France.
Casolba, enhancing the quality of solar arrays
8 August 2005
Mission success
The Casolba* flight was a complete success, with no less than 47 measurement-gathering sessions. All measurements were highly satisfactory. The mission objective was to use a stratospheric balloon flight to calibrate solar cells.
Elint partnership with DGA confirmed
28 July 2005
Intelligence demonstrator
On 13 July 2005, the CNES Board of Directors approved CNES’s participation in the Elint project, an electromagnetic intelligence preparatory mission.
A CNES-Esa agreement on launcher Soyuz at the Guiana Space Center
26 July 2005
CNES and Esa make the Soyuz project move forward
An innovative project to mitigate orbital pollution
19 July 2005
Mitigating space pollution
Joint French-Israeli VENUS mission
1st joint French-Israeli mission
One year ago, France and Israel completed the 1st phase of their joint VENµS* mission, validating the main concepts. Today, they have consolidated the foundations of the programme and VENµS has entered its development phase.
CNES President Yannick d'Escatha and Isa Director General Zvi Kaplan signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) concerning the mission on 12 April.