PLEIADES – PLEIADES (2012)

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The Pleiades system is a truly dual-purpose optical observation system. As a complement to the French military space observation system Helios 2 and the Spot satellites, it has been designed to meet the needs of both Defense and civilian users, institutional and also commercial.

Pléiades. Modell eines Pléiades-Satelliten auf dem Stand der CNES auf der Pariser Luftfahrtschau 2019. Pléiades ist ein Paar von Erdbeobachtungssatelliten aus dem italienisch-französischen Satellitenprogramm Orfeo.

Pleiades 1A: 17 December 2011 Pleiades 1B: 1 December 2012: Partners: CNES: Instruments: 70-cm-resolution optical instrument in the visible and near-infrared: Localisation: Sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit at an altitude of 694 km: Mission lifetime: 5 years

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