Soyuz Launches French Pleiades Imaging Satellite

摘要

The French Pleiades 1B high-resolution optical Earth observation satellite is scheduled to enter operations in March following its successful Dec. 1 launch aboard the European version of Russia's Soyuz medium-lift rocket The French space agency, CNES, on Dec. 7 released Pleiades 1B's first image, showing the city and bay of Lorient, in France's Brittany region.