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  2. Celestia - Wikipedia

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    Celestia allows users to navigate at different speeds, and allow users to orbit stars, planets, moons, and other space objects, track space objects such as spacecraft, asteroids, and comets as they fly by, or travel to and/or fly through galaxies. Light time delay is an optional function.

  3. French space program - Wikipedia

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    Space launch vehicle imagined on a Gobelins tapestry, ordered by Colbert and drawn by Le Brun, 1664.. Space travel has long been a significant ambition in French culture.From the Gobelins' 1664 tapestry representing a space rocket, [1] to Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon and George Méliès' 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, space and rocketry were present in French society long ...

  4. Guiana Space Centre - Wikipedia

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    The Guiana Space Centre (French: Centre spatial guyanais; CSG), also called Europe's Spaceport, [3] [4] is a spaceport to the northwest of Kourou in French Guiana, an overseas region of France in South America. Kourou is located approximately 500 kilometres (310 mi; 270 nmi) north of the equator at a latitude of 5°.

  5. Hermes (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

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    The Resource Module and the launcher would be expended. [9] When launching the Hermes, the Ariane 5 would have had its upper stage replaced by the space plane and an adaptor to mate the vehicle to the main cryogenic stage. The equipment bay of the launcher would also be removed and the spaceplane would perform all guidance and control functions ...

  6. ArianeGroup - Wikipedia

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    ArianeGroup (formerly Airbus Safran Launchers) is an aerospace company based in France.A joint venture between Airbus and Safran, [5] the company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris.

  7. Astérix (satellite) - Wikipedia

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    Initial plans called for a late 1964 or early 1965 launch of FR-1, with Astérix's launch scheduled for early 1965. [ 1 ] : 26–27 It appears Astérix was put into orbit prior to FR-1 because Charles de Gaulle and CNES wanted France to become the third space power by launching an independently-developed satellite on a French launcher, a ...

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  9. Ariane (rocket family) - Wikipedia

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    Ariane is a series of European civilian expendable launch vehicles for space launch use. The name comes from the French spelling of the mythological character Ariadne. France first proposed the Ariane project and it was officially agreed upon at the end of 1973 after discussions between France, Germany and the UK. The project was Western Europe ...