Editing CNES (section)

===Ongoing missions===
France's contribution to the [[International Space Station]] is giving French scientists the opportunity to perform original experiments in [[microgravity]]. CNES is also studying formation flying, a technique whereby several satellites fly components of a much heavier and complex instrument in a close and tightly controlled configuration, with satellites being as close as tens of meters apart. CNES is studying formation flying as part of the Swedish-led [[Prisma (satellite project)|PRISMA]] project and on its own with the Simbol-x x-ray telescope mission.<ref>{{cite press release |date=June 22, 2006 |title=PRISMA PROGRAMME SEEKS TO ACQUIRE EXPERTISE IN FORMATION FLYING |url=https://cnes.fr/en/web/CNES-en/5283-prisma-programme-seeks-to-acquire-expertise-in-formation-flying.php |location=Toulouse |publisher=CNES |access-date=2018-04-30}}</ref>

CNES currently collaborates with other space agencies on a number of projects, including orbital telescopes like [[INTEGRAL|INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory]], [[XMM-Newton]], and [[COROT]] and space probes like [[Mars Express]], [[Venus Express]], [[Cassini-Huygens]], and [[Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta]]. CNES has collaborated with NASA on missions like the Earth observation satellite [[PARASOL]] and the [[CALIPSO]] environment and weather satellite.

It has also collaborated with the Indian Space Agency ([[ISRO]]) on the [[Megha-Tropiques Mission]], which is studying the [[water cycle]] and how it has been impacted by [[Global warming|climate change]]. CNES plays a major role in the ESA's [[Living Planet Programme]] of Earth observation satellites, having constructed the [[Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite]].