News and Events

CNES and AEB at Le Bourget Paris Air Show

Signature of the letter of intent dedicated to the establishment of an intertropical launching base in Brazil for stratospheric balloons

A CNES balloon will soon fly over Greenland

Next challenge for the Balloon Sub-Directorate: to make the first transatlantic flight between Kiruna (northern Sweden) and Nunavut (Canada's far north) using an open...

Around the world in eight balloons with Strateole...

Strateole-2 is a French-US project supported by ESA that uses CNES superpressure balloons drifting around the globe to study the climate processes in the Tropical Tropopause Layer...

Successful Strato-Science 2019 balloon flight...

The Strato-Science 2019 balloon flight campaign, started in mid-August, has been a clear success. The four zero-pressure stratospheric balloon flights operated by CNES—two for...

Timmins 2019, start of Strato-Science 2019...

France-Canada space cooperation - Successful...

Wednesday 22 August in Timmins, Ontario, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall met his Canadian counterpart and friend Sylvain Laporte, President of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA),...

STRATEOLE-2: the LOAC particle counter joins the...

In early February, the LOAC particle counter was delivered to the integration and test platform in Guyancourt. Its integration for the flying balloons Strateole-2 project took...

The first Strateole-2 gondola ready to perform...

The SAWfPHY, B-Bop and LOAC instruments loaded in the ZEPHYR gondola arrived for integration. These instruments will respectively perform measurements of water vapour, ozone and...

The SAWfPHY hygrometer integrated in the ZEPHYR...

On 18 January, Guyancourt's integration and testing platform began assembling the first scientific instrument in the gondola for the STRATEOLE-22 project. The SAWfPHY...

ROC2, the GPS atmospheric sounder delivered to...

The first instrument on board the ZEPHYR gondola was delivered to the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory in autumn 2017.

EUSO-SPB set down in the Pacific Ocean after over...

The second EUSO-Balloon flight landed on 7th May around 3.20 am UT.

Second PILOT flight in Australia: smooth lift-off...

The conclusion of an epic human, technical and scientific adventure in Australia, riddled with challenges and rewarded with success!

Successful launch of NASA’s EUSO-SPB balloon

The EUSO-SPB balloon has taken off from Wanaka Airport in New Zealand to observe ultra-high energy cosmic rays

France-Australia space cooperation - Successful...

CNES has completed the three stratospheric balloon flights of its Austral 2017 campaign without a hitch, yielding a rich harvest of precious science data on climate, astronomy and...

[PRESS] CNES stratospheric balloons. Three major...

Three major stratospheric science balloon campaigns are planned this year to fly novel astrophysics experiments in the field of Universe science. CNES and French research...

Pilot almost ready to launch

PILOT's science team is making the final flight preparations in the blistering Australian heat

CNES stratospheric balloons. Three major flight...

Three major stratospheric science balloon campaigns are planned this year to fly novel astrophysics experiments in the field of Universe science. CNES and French research...

News from Pilot in Australia

PILOT arrived in Australia in early February, and reached the balloon launch station in Alice Springs in mid-February. The science team arrived on 11th March, to set up the...