Viewing a launch is an unforgettable experience. The Guiana Space Centre (CSG) gives you the chance to do it for free, at a safe distance a few kilometres from the launch pads. To book a viewing, go to the CSG’s website:

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One Thursday every month, the Cité de l’espace space theme park and CNES organize 2½-hour visits that take you behind the scenes of the agency’s Toulouse Space Centre (CST). Companies, groups of students and associations can just tour the CST or combine it with a visit to the Cité de l’espace. For details, see the Cité de l'espace website:

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The Guiana Space Centre (CSG) has a number of activities open to the public:

• Guyaspace Experience (formerly the Space Museum) offers a fun and immersive experience in the world of space.
• Tours of the control centre and launch zones.
• Savannah tours to discover French Guiana’s rich diversity of flora and fauna, with a guide from the French forestry commission (ONF).

To contact a CNES subject matter expert:

• Consult the list of subject matters and contacts here: CNES programme.
• Or search for a specific project here: Explore our projects.

CNES and its partners provide data and services hubs enabling access to space-based data for numerous applications including agriculture, mobility, tourism, environmental science or land planning, for example.

For more details, see: Access space-based data.

The GEODES Earth-observation data portal also offers access to a range of data and services.

Connect by CNES provides satellite data and space technologies for businesses (start-ups, SMEs, large primes, etc.) and institutions (local authorities and government departments and agencies). It offers a broad portfolio of services to support your projects, from ideation, incubation and acceleration to patents, software, funding, training and promotion.

For more details, see the Connect by CNES website.

Or contact our Connect by CNES teams via the contact form.

CNES offers a range of activities over the course of the school year to bring space into the classroom. This covers many themes, such as rockets, atmospheric balloons, satellites, space exploration, microgravity, the environment and climate.

To consult projects and register to take part, see: Educational projects.

Find more teaching resources here: Educators.

If you can’t find the answer to your question, contact our Education-Youth department here.

For institutional, media or event partnerships, contact our press relations team.

For partnerships with schools or universities, contact our Education-Youth department.

For a film, series or podcast project, contact our audiovisual team.

France’s astronauts are part of the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut corps. To request an interview or public appearance, go to the PAROS platform.

Thank you for your interest in CNES! We invite you to regularly consult our job offers or submit an unsolicited application on our dedicated website: recrutement.cnes.fr.

You can also find more information about careers at CNES here:

• Working at CNES
• Careers
• Internships and work-study placements
• Doctoral and post-doctoral research

CNES hosts some 200 interns and students on work-study placements every year (in the final year of engineering school or university, or with a two-year diploma). All internships and work-study placements are consultable on our recrutement.cnes.fr website, where you can also submit an unsolicited application.

⚠️ No internship applications sent via the CNES website (cnes.fr) will be processed by our teams.

For more details, see Internships and work-study placements.

For ninth-grade work experience, see 9^th grade work experience.

You can also consult the Métiers du spatial (space careers) website for ideas on other space sector companies you could contact who may accept interns.

Every year, CNES allocates 100 doctoral or post-doctoral research grants. For more details, see Doctoral and post-doctoral research.

If you have a specific question, you can write to PhD@cnes.fr.

Think you’ve seen something unusual? GEIPAN is the unit at CNES tasked with analysing unidentified aerospace phenomena. We invite you to consult their website, where you can compare what you saw with regularly reported phenomena and submit an account if you wish.

Submit an eyewitness account via the GEIPAN website

Think you’ve found a meteorite? We advise you to contact the National Natural History Museum (MNHM) or the natural history museum in your area.

Report a meteorite on the MNHM website

If you would like to use an image copyrighted by CNES, browse our photo library and send us your request via this link.

If you would like to use a sequence from one of our videos, browse our video library and send us your request via this link.

For all requests concerning Cospas-Sarsat distress beacons, see our dedicated web page and write to fmcc@cnes.fr.