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Start Here for Space: France’s Le Centre National d’Études Spatiales Stretches Boundaries

Originally aired on: August 23, 2022

Nicolas Maubert, Space Counselor to the French Embassy, shares insight into the Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) operations, the agency’s presence in Washington D.C., and international cooperation between France and the United States. This episode is the fourth of a special season of Start Here for Space in which we hear directly from Washington representatives for international space agencies. International Space Agencies gathered in Colorado Springs for the 2023 Space Symposium.

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Nicolas Maubert is the Representative of CNES (French Space Agency) and Space Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States. He has 20 years of professional experience in multiple space organizations within the industry and government, in various international environments (Europe, South and North America). He previously held leadership roles in space program management, system engineering and operations, and has been deeply involved in the French space policy consolidation. He has served notably as spacecraft and launch operation manager for CNES at the European Spaceport in French Guiana, system manager for the Galileo navigation program within the European Space Agency in the Netherlands, or satellite and ground mission segment program manager for Thales Alenia Space in Italy and France.

Nicolas Maubert

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