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[Press] MICROSCOPE: final results achieve record...
The MICROSCOPE mission has delivered its latest results and has confirmed the equivalence principle with unprecedented accuracy. A new victory for the Theory of General Relativity...
News SciencesSeptember 14, 2022 -
Final results of MICROSCOPE mission achieve...
SciencesSeptember 14, 2022 -
End of mission for Microscope - CNES’s satellite...
CNES teams have achieved a first with the innovative passive de-orbiting of the Microscope satellite (MICROSatellite à trainée Compensée pour l'Observation du Principe d...
SciencesOctober 18, 2018 -
Innovative end for Microscope
Having reached the end of its mission, the French Microscope satellite is set to perform one last manoeuvre with a new de-orbiting system designed to avert space debris. Isabelle...
News SciencesOctober 15, 2018 -
Small Satellites, Systems and Services Symposium
Institutional affairsMay 28, 2018 -
First gravitational results from Microscope
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity continues to stand the test of time and scientists’ ever deeper probing. The first results from the Microscope satellite have...
News SciencesDecember 4, 2017 -
First results from Microscope satellite confirm...
Measurements of the equivalence principle had not been improved upon for 10 years, but now the first results from CNES’s Microscope satellite, equipped with accelerometers...
SciencesDecember 4, 2017 -
Microscope satellite First results looking very...
CNES’s Microscope satellite has begun the long science phase of its mission after successfully completing in-orbit checkout, during which it has already achieved very promising...
SciencesDecember 7, 2016 -
Press Release: Microscope satellite First results...
CNES’s Microscope satellite has begun the long science phase of its mission after successfully completing in-orbit checkout, during which it has already achieved very promising...
News SciencesDecember 7, 2016 -
Press Release: CNES ONERA cooperation First ultra...
In orbit since April, Microscope (MICROSatellite à trainée Compensée pour l’Observation du Principe d’Équivalence) is pursuing functional tests before its scheduled switch to...
News SciencesSeptember 29, 2016 -
Microscope Major mission milestone as satellite...
The Microscope satellite (MICROSatellite à trainée Compensée pour l’Observation du Principe d’Équivalence) has now been in orbit for three weeks and functional tests are ongoing...
SciencesMay 12, 2016 -
Soyuz successfully orbits Microscope, Sentinel-1B...
Monday 25 April, the Soyuz launcher accomplished its 14th successful flight from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, orbiting Microscope for CNES,...
ArianeApril 26, 2016 -
Next Soyuz mission from Guiana Space Centre to...
Friday 22 April, Soyuz will launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) to send aloft the Microscope satellite for CNES, Sentinel-1B for the European Space...
ArianeApril 19, 2016 -
Microscope A new CNES satellite to test Albert...
CNES’s Microscope satellite (MICROSatellite à trainée Compensée pour l’Observation du Principe d’Équivalence) was presented to the press today at the agency’s Head Office in Paris...
SciencesApril 15, 2016 -
Press Release: CNES’s next satellite, Microscope...
CNES’s Microscope satellite (MICROSatellite à trainée Compensée pour l’Observation du Principe d’Équivalence) arrived at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) on 10 March. It is now set...
News SciencesMarch 11, 2016 -
Integration of Microscope satellite
Evolution of the integration of Microscope microsatellite at CNES, Toulouse
News Sciences Specialist public, Science and technologySeptember 25, 2015 -
Press release: the MICROSCOPE project begins
The MICROSCOPE project begins: will new physics ultimately replace the current model?
News SciencesJune 25, 2004