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French military surveillance satellite launched by Soyuz rocket – Spaceflight Now
A Soyuz ST-A rocket fires off its launch pad in French Guiana with the CSO 2 spacecraft. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace Photo Optique Video du CSG P. Piron
An optical reconnaissance satellite for the French military took off atop a Soyuz launcher Tuesday, riding the Russian-made rocket from a tropical spaceport in South America into a 300-mile-high polar orbit to begin a 10-year mission surveying the globe.
France’s CSO 2 spy satellite joins CSO 1, an identical craft launched in 2018, to continue…
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