| French: Centre national d'études spatiales | |
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 CNES headquarters in Paris | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | CNES |
| Formed | 19 December 1961 |
| Jurisdiction | Government of France |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
President | Philippe Baptiste |
| Primary spaceport | Guiana Space Centre |
| Owners | |
| Annual budget | €2.370 billion (2023)[1] |
| Website | cnes |
CNES (French: Centre national d'études spatiales, lit. 'National Centre for Space Studies') is the French national space agency. Headquartered in central Paris, the agency comes under the supervision of the ministries of the Armed Forces, Economy and Finance and Higher Education, Research and Innovation.
It operates from the Toulouse Space Centre and the Guiana Space Centre. The president of CNES is Philippe Baptiste.[2] CNES is a member of Institute of Space, its Applications and Technologies. It is Europe's largest national organization of its type.[3]
- ^ Budget - CNES, CNES, retrieved 2024-07-07
- ^ "Macron names Philippe Baptiste new head of French CNES". Spacewatch Global. April 2021. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
- ^ "French Space Agency | French government agency". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-03-26.