This article is about the space agency. For the Scottish council, see Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.
National Centre for Space Studies
Centre national d'études spatiales
Logotype of CNES
Agency overview
Abbreviation
CNES
Formed
19 December 1961; 62 years ago (1961-12-19)
Type
Space agency
Jurisdiction
Government of France
Headquarters
Paris, Île-de-France
Administrator
Philippe Baptiste
Primary spaceports
Guiana Space Centre
Annual budget
€2.566 billion (2022)[1]
Website
cnes.fr/en
CNES, 2 Place Maurice Quentin, 75039 Paris, France
The National Centre for Space Studies (CNES; French: Centre national d'études spatiales) is the French national space agency (administratively, a "public administration with industrial and commercial purpose") headquartered in central Paris and it comes under the supervision of the French Ministries of Defence and Research.
It operates from the Toulouse Space Centre and the Guiana Space Centre, but also has payloads launched from space centres operated by other countries. 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]
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^"Macron names Philippe Baptiste new head of French CNES". Spacewatch Global. April 2021. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
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