CNES
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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.
Centre national d'études spatiales | |
Agency overview | |
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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 | |
Annual budget | €2.566 billion (2022)[1] |
Website | cnes |
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]