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Unprecedented international cooperation
[Send to a friend] [Print] Unprecedented international cooperation The first space stations In the early days, astronauts explored space in small and cramped capsules where they could only lie down. From 1971 to 1982, the USSR launched the successive Salyut space stations, which were larger ...
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From mir to the international space station
From mir to the international space station [Send to a friend] [Print] As it turned out, the Russian space agency had no need for its $200 million insurance policy, for Mir's deorbiting was a total success. Russia's people felt a mixture of sadness and concern that a national symbol had passed ...
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Tightening international regulations
Tightening international regulations [Send to a friend] [Print] The United States and Russian space agencies had to address orbital debris issues from very early on, mainly for their human spaceflight programmes. [Anti-debris test device installed on the international space station. Credits: Na ...
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Columbus enters home straight before ISS
[Send to a friend] [Print] Columbus enters home straight before ISS 17 May 2006 The Columbus laboratory is one of Europe's main contributions to the International Space Station. The European module recently completed integration at EADS ST and has now been officially delivered to Esa in readin ...
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2001, a Mir Odyssey
2001, a Mir Odyssey [Send to a friend] [Print] In the years immediately following the first spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin in 1961, space exploration was limited to small, uncomfortable capsules with barely enough room for astronauts to crouch or lie down. It soon became clear that larger structur ...
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ATV-CC
[Send to a friend] [Print] ATV-CC The ATV operations control centre The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is a partly automated cargo spacecraft. It is a major European contribution to the International Space Station (ISS), and the most complex vehicle ever developed by ESA. It is 3 times large ...
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PR23-2004 - CNES and Caenorhabditis Elegans on board next taxi flight for ISS
PRESS RELEASE [Send to a friend] [Print] CNES PRESS RELEASE April 5, 2004 CNES AND CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS ON BOARD NEXT TAXI FLIGHT FOR ISS For Mission DELTA (Dutch Expedition for L ...
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PR20-2003 - 4th Symposium on French-Japanese cooperation
PRESS RELEASE [Send to a friend] [Print] JOINT PR Paris, 24 April 2003 FOURTH SYMPOSIUM ON FRENCH-JAPANESE SPACE COOPERATION To step up current cooperation efforts in space and identify new joint project opportunities, Jap ...
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Long-duration ISS mission
[Send to a friend] [Print] Long-duration ISS mission under the watchful eye of CADMOS 5 July 2006 Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Florida yesterday. European astronaut Thomas Reiter on board is en route to the International Space Station, where he will be spending 6 to 7 months aloft. ...
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“Moscow, we have a problem!”
“Moscow, we have a problem!” [Send to a friend] [Print] [Damages on the Spektr module and the solar arrays after a collision. Crédits : NASA] [/img/2008/imageZoom.gif] Damages on the Spektr module and the solar arrays after a collision. Crédits : NASA 1997 was marred by a series of near-catastr ...
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Columbus soon to enter service
[Send to a friend] [Print] Columbus bientôt en service 24 October 2007 6 December, the U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis is set to lift off for the International Space Station (ISS) with a new key element of the giant orbital Meccano set: the European Columbus laboratory. [Columbus module. Artist vi ...
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ATV-3 docks with International Space Station
ATV-3 docks with International Space Station The 3rd European ISS resupply craft docked with the station as planned Thursday 29 March at 0:31 CET. It will remain berthed to the orbital outpost for up to 6 months.
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Site Map
CNES Home o About CNES About CNES Space central to today's key social concerns Meeting society's needs CNES facilities Cultural policy CNES Space Observatory ...
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CP009-2008 - CNES and International Polar Year
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A deceptive phenomenon
A deceptive phenomenon [Send to a friend] [Print] There are many misconceptions about weightlessness. Here are 3 of the most common: Misconception number 1: “Weightlessness is caused by a vacuum”. [Imagined by Jean-Pierre Penot (CNES) and Bernard Nicolas, illustrated by Bernard Nicolas] [/img ...
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Cardiomed
[Send to a friend] [Print] Cardiomed Monitoring cosmonauts' health in real time The permanent microgravity environment of an orbiting space station offers scientists a particularly valuable testing ground . The International Space Station (ISS) thus has accommodates many European science proj ...
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PR40-2005 - Brazilian space agency (AEB) and CNES partners on COROT mission
[cnes-presse] Paris, 14 June 2005 JOINT CNES-AEB PRESS RELEASE PR 40/2005 BRAZILIAN SPACE AGENCY (AEB) AND CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES (CNES) ...
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ATV campaign at Guiana Space Centre draws to a close
[Send to a friend] [Print] ATV campaign at Guiana Space Centre draws to a close 25 February 2008 [Crédits : ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Service optique du CSG] [/img/2008/ imageZoom.gif] Crédits : ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Service optique du CSG With just 2 weeks to go to the 1st flight of the ATV—Europe' ...
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Controlling the ATV from Toulouse
[Send to a friend] [Print] Controlling the ATV from Toulouse 6 December 2007 [ATV docking to the station. Crédits : ESA/D. Ducros, nov. 2007] [/img/2008/ imageZoom.gif] ATV docking to the station. Crédits : ESA/D. Ducros, nov. 2007 The ATV Jules Verne, the 1st of Europe's transfer vehicles tha ...
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PR70-2003 - De-orbitation of SPOT1
PRESS RELEASE [Send to a friend] [Print] CNES PRESS RELEASE November 13, 2003 KEEPING SPACE FREE OF DEBRIS CNES SHOWS THE WAY WITH DECISION TO DE-ORBIT SPOT 1 On 22 February 1986, a European Ari ...
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