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The Pléiades system was designed under the French-Italian ORFEO Programme (Optical and Radar Federated Earth Observation) between 2001 and 2003. [2]The Pléiades programme was launched in October 2003 with CNES (the French space agency) as the overall system prime contractor and EADS Astrium as the prime contractor for the space segment.
Astrosat-1000 is the largest option in EADS Astrium's Astrosat family of satellite buses. Astrosat-1000 provides the basic structure for building satellites between 800 and 1200 kg in mass. It is the satellite bus used for the Pléiades-HR series of satellites. [1] [2] [3]
Pleiades is part of NASA's High-End Computing Capability (HECC) Project and represents NASA's state-of-the-art technology for meeting the agency's supercomputing requirements, enabling NASA scientists and engineers to conduct high-fidelity modeling and simulation for NASA missions in Earth studies, space science, aeronautics research, as well ...
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The Ariane project was code-named L3S (the French abbreviation for third-generation substitution launcher). The European Space Agency (ESA) charged the EADS subsidiary Astrium , presently Airbus Defence and Space, with the development of all Ariane launchers and of the testing facilities, while Arianespace , a 32.5% CNES commercial subsidiary ...
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IC 2602 (also known as the Southern Pleiades, Theta Carinae Cluster, or Caldwell 102) [4] is an open cluster in the constellation Carina. Discovered by Abbe Lacaille in 1751 from South Africa , [ 5 ] the cluster is easily visible to the unaided eye , and is one of the nearest star clusters, centred about 149 parsecs (486 light-years ) away from ...
IC 349, also known as Barnard's Merope Nebula, is a nebula which lies 3500 AUs (0.06 light years) [2] from the star Merope in the Pleiades cluster.. It was discovered in November 1890 by the American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard, who described it as "a new and comparatively bright round cometary nebula close south and following Merope (23 Tau) ... about 30" in diameter, of the 13 ...