Back المركز الوطني للدراسات الفضائية Arabic Centru Nacional d'Estudios Espaciales AST Нацыянальны цэнтр касмічных даследаванняў Byelorussian Национален център за космически изследвания Bulgarian Centre National d'Études Spatiales Catalan ناوەندی نیشتمانی بۆ لێکۆڵینەوەی بۆشایی CKB Národní centrum kosmického výzkumu Czech Centre national d'études spatiales Danish Centre national d’études spatiales German Centro Nacia de Eksterteraj Studoj Esperanto
| Centre national d'études spatiales | |
 Logotype of CNES | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | CNES |
| Formed | 19 December 1961 |
| Type | Space agency |
| Jurisdiction | Government of France |
| Headquarters | Paris, Île-de-France |
| Administrator | Philippe Baptiste |
| Primary spaceports | |
| Annual budget | €2.566 billion (2022)[1] |
| Website | cnes |
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]
- ^ UN BUDGET EXCEPTIONNEL, CNES, 17 August 2022, retrieved 2022-11-04
- ^ "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.
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