The French ministry of defense organized a roundtable on military space between a senior officer and three junior officers in different space-related organizations of the ministry. They detailed their thinking on SSA, intelligence, and conflict in space.
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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