News and Events
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Galileo now replying to SOS messages worldwide
As well as providing global navigation services, Europe’s Galileo satellite constellation is contributing to saving more than 2000 lives annually by relaying SOS messages to first...
News TelecommunicationsMarch 20, 2020 -
Opening of Cospas-Sarsat French Mission Control...
Tuesday 28 June at the Toulouse Space Centre (CST), CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall officially opened the Cospas-Sarsat French Mission Control Centre (FMCC) and the SAR-Galileo...
Other fieldJune 29, 2016 -
Disappearance of EgyptAir Paris-Cairo flight...
CNES and French Joint Space Command (CIE) have been working together to help precisely locate the search area where signals were intercepted from the data recorders of the Airbus...
TelecommunicationsJune 3, 2016 -
France takes up chair of Cospas-Sarsat Council
Meeting last week in Montreal, Canada, the Cospas-Sarsat Council appointed France as its chair, effective 11 December for a year, in the person of Bruno Chazal, France’s...
News Telecommunications InstitutionalDecember 21, 2015 -
Press Release: CNES hosts meeting of...
Around 40 international experts in the field of Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs)—the distress beacons installed on aircraft—will meet at the Toulouse Space Centre between 3...
News TelecommunicationsSeptember 2, 2014 -
Press Release: Cospas-Sarsat programme honoured...
At the 30th Space Symposium, held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, 18 to 22 May, the Space Foundation, which organizes this prestigious event, inducted the Cospas-Sarsat programme...
News TelecommunicationsMay 23, 2014 -
New chapter opening for Cospas-Sarsat
20 years after its inception, a new chapter is opening for the international Cospas-Sarsat satellite search-and-rescue programme. On 1 February, it will be making the final...
News Telecommunications InstitutionalJanuary 21, 2009 -
Cospas-Sarsat turns 20 in Biarritz
The council of the Cospas-Sarsat international satellite search-and-rescue programme is meeting this year in France, where the 40 member countries will be celebrating the 20th...
News Telecommunications InstitutionalOctober 20, 2008 -
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 -
New Argos and Sarsat instruments in orbit
The latest 2nd-generation Argos and Sarsat instruments joined their predecessors. Launched on May 20 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, the NOAA-N satellite, renamed NOAA...
News Observation InstitutionalMay 12, 2005