Another month, another CNES café, this time on Ariane 6 and future launchers.
Category: France
French generals discuss military space
Hearing of the French Joint Commander for Space
History of the French reconnaissance system
France currently has a vigorous earth observation industry, which captures a large part of the export market for reconnaissance satellites. It has not always been this way: contrary to the USA or the USSR, France has never had film-return optical satellites, and orbited its own space reconnaissance systems roughly 30 years later than them. In… Continue reading History of the French reconnaissance system