Astrium has launched six military satellites simultaneously from the Kourou European Space Centre in French Guiana. The six spacecraft, which were sent into orbit on 17 December aboard a Russian Soyuz launcher, comprise the French CNES military-civil Pleiades 1 high resolution Earth observation satellite, four CNES/DGA ELISA radar emissions mapping micro satellites and the SSOT Chilean military observation satellite.
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