Toulouse Space Centre
The Toulouse Space Centre is a research and development centre of CNES. Founded in September 1968, it is located in the Rangueil-Lespinet district of Toulouse in the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in France.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Industry
- Description: RTD center in France
- Also known as: “Centre Spatial de Toulouse”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include École nationale de l’aviation civile and Institut national des sciences appliquées de Toulouse.
École nationale de l’aviation civile
College
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École nationale de l'aviation civile is one of 205 colleges accredited to award engineering degrees in France. ENAC is designated as a grande école by the Conférence des Grandes écoles, a non-profit organisation which certifies and monitors grandes écoles. École nationale de l’aviation civile is situated 800 metres north of Toulouse Space Centre.
Institut national des sciences appliquées de Toulouse
College
The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse or INSA Toulouse is a French grande école of engineering, under the authority of the French Ministry of Education and Research. Institut national des sciences appliquées de Toulouse is situated 2 km northwest of Toulouse Space Centre.
Château Lespinet-Lasvignes
Castle
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Château Lespinet-Lasvignes is a castle, which is situated 1 km west of Toulouse Space Centre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Montaudran and Rangueil.
Montaudran
Suburb
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Montaudran is a suburb of Toulouse situated to the south east of the city, by the Hers-Mort river. It is notable thanks to the Aéropostale company and its aerodrome which was the base for the aeronautical pioneers between 1917 and 1933 who established the first commercial air routes with postal flights to Casablanca, Dakar… and on to South America.
Rangueil
Suburb
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Rangueil is a residential area south-east of Toulouse in Haute-Garonne, France, where grandes écoles and Universities are located as well as an important scientific complex. It has 2,295 inhabitants. Rangueil is situated 2½ km northwest of Toulouse Space Centre.
Toulouse Saint-Agne
Suburb
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Toulouse Saint-Agne is a suburb, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Toulouse Space Centre.
Toulouse Space Centre
- Category: research center
- Location: Toulouse, Arrondissement of Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France, Europe
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Latitude
43.55799° or 43° 33′ 29″ northLongitude
1.48391° or 1° 29′ 2″ eastOperator
CNESOpen location code
8FM3HF5M+5HOpenStreetMap ID
way 22804762OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q3032233
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Persian—“Toulouse Space Centre” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مركز تولوز للفضاء”
- Chinese: “图卢兹航天中心”
- French: “centre spatial de Toulouse”
- French: “Centre spatial de Toulouse”
- French: “CNES Toulouse”
- French: “CST”
- Hebrew: “מרכז החלל טולוז”
- Indonesian: “Pusat Antariksa Toulouse”
- Japanese: “トゥールーズ宇宙センター”
- Persian: “مرکز فضایی تولوز”
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