Internaut Files
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CNESMAG 90 - 60 years for the future
The conquest of space is a fabulous human adventure driven by passion. Our role today has changed and our role in the future is a new chapter to be written. So do science and technology and join us with your new ideas.
March 9, 2022 -
CNESMAG 91 - Innovation:boosting French expertise
This issue shows how we have rethought our role and documents the wealth of real-world solutions we are providing to spawn start-ups and nurture the French New Space industry, irrigating the wider space ecosystem.
February 17, 2022 -
CNESMAG 89 - Ballooning:a French flair
The intense heat, droughts, storms and typhoons disrupting the planet’s delicate climate balances come with critical risks for populations. For the past 60 years, balloons have proved a platform of choice, complementing satellites with their unique ability to stay aloft for long periods at altitudes of 20 to 40 kilometres and collect in-situ data on winds,...
August 4, 2021 -
CNESMAG 88 - CSR : CNES rises to the challenge
At CNES we are keenly aware of our obligations as a government agency, which is why we are committed to affirming our corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ensuring that our space missions and activities bring positive impacts for the planet, society, citizens and CNES’s people.
May 3, 2021 -
Venus
Of similar size and mass, Venus is sometimes considered Earth’s twin.
April 20, 2021 -
CNESMAG 87 - Exploration : moving up a scale
How far will humans venture into space? And when they get there, what will they do and what will they discover? These questions are no doubt the real reasons motivating human space exploration, which has been making the headlines recently in the world of space.
February 16, 2021 -
CNESMAG 86 - Taranis:the hidden side of storms
Sprites, elves, jets… few people know that scientists habitually use such other-worldly words to describe what are less poetically called transient luminous events or TLEs, the flashes and electromagnetic emissions that occur during active storms just a few tens of kilometres over our heads. But what are the physical processes and mechanisms behind these...
November 3, 2020 -
CNESMAG 85 - Exploring life's origins:the ultimate quest
Where did life come from? Are we alone in the universe? These two closely related questions have reached beyond the realm of philosophy and are now being subjected to scientific investigation in more precise terms. Attempting to answer them is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle in which each piece lies at the end of a treasure hunt. This summer, three...
July 24, 2020 -
CNESMAG 84 - Biodiversity: building resilience
For close on 20 years, the space community has strived to document, map and observe biodiversity. Satellites are watching over forests, measuring soil moisture, tracking habitats and hundreds of species to analyse their behaviour. New hyperspectral technologies are set to deliver deeper insights into forest and cropland biomass and the carbon sinks they...
May 29, 2020 -
CNESMAG 83 - Agriculture : remote sensing raises the bar
Earth-observation data acquired from orbit across the wavelength spectrum enable the status of crop fields, pastures and water resources to be monitored in real time all over the globe and harvests and yields to be estimated. Space is also easing agriculture’s environmental footprint by aiding a more-integrated approach to managing inputs, fertilisers,...
February 14, 2020 -
CNESMAG (special issue) - Space Climate Observatory (SCO) : data serving territories
It is to address local needs that CNES launched the Space Climate Observatory (SCO) initiative, which was subsequently selected by President Emmanuel Macron at the One Planet Summit in December 2017. The SCO combines the expertise of the world’s space agencies to supply satellite data that will serve to model the impacts of climate change on specific...
January 20, 2020 -
CNESMAG 82 - Satellite telecommunications : welcome to a new era
Few people imagine that it’s satellite telecommunications that first brought space into our daily lives. Today, there’s no programme on TV that isn’t beamed through a satellite, no text message that doesn’t make a detour via geostationary orbit and no positional fix that doesn’t use signals from constellations circling Earth thousands of kilometres above...
November 15, 2019 -
CNESMAG - Archives
CNESMAG, the magazine of the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales.
September 27, 2019 -
CNESMAG 81 - Wind and Waves:an enigmatic duo
Wind and waves—an enigmatic duo that immediately conjures up days spent at the beach. Yet behind the holiday images hide the keys to our planet’s climate. CNESMAG have focused on such phenomena, emphasising the vital role that satellites play in their observation. That’s because only satellites can provide global data on land masses and oceans over very...
September 6, 2019 -
CNESMAG 80 - Space Exploration: solar system in sight
On 21 July, we will be marking the 50th anniversary of man’s first steps on the Moon, on what remains to this day the most extraordinary space mission ever undertaken.
May 15, 2019 -
CNESMAG 79 - Defence : space in demand
On 22 February 1986, more than 30 years ago, the launch of SPOT 1, the nation’s first Earth-observation satellite conceived and developed by CNES, immediately caught the attention of our armed forces. They subsequently decided to invest in their own space-based observation assets and since 1995, the Helios satellites—recently joined by CSO-1, the first of...
February 7, 2019 -
CNESMAG 78 - French Guiana: a launch base like no other
This CNESMAG is dedicated to the Guiana Space Center with a focus on the history of Europe's spaceport and its 50 years of launch, but also on CNES's commitments in French Guiana.
November 13, 2018 -
CNESMAG 77 – Miniaturization: smallsats step up to the plate
Mini-, micro-, nano-, pico- are the new prefixes ruling the world of satellites today. Why? Because space too is riding the wave of the digital revolution and its stupendous technological advances. Get the latest on this major paradigm shift in our summer edition of CNESMAG.
July 19, 2018
