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The satellite was originally designated A-1, as the French Army's first satellite, but later renamed by the press after popular French comics character Astérix. [4] [3] The names Zébulon and Zebby, after another cartoon character from the French children's television program Le Manège enchanté, were also considered. [3] [2]
Asterix (French: Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois [asteʁiks lə ɡolwa], "Asterix the Gaul"; also known as Asterix and Obelix in some adaptations or The Adventures of Asterix) is a French comic album series about a Gaulish village which, thanks to a magic potion that enhances strength, resists the forces of Julius Caesar's Roman Republic Army in a nonhistorical telling of the time after the ...
ASTERISC is named after the word asterisk (*), which traces its origin to an ancient Greek word meaning "little star". The satellite will observe space dust, which are tiny fragments of a star. Additionally, the satellite is a CubeSat, figuratively a "little star". [3] The project is led by Ryo Ishimaru of PERC. [4]
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FR-1 [1] [4] [6] was the second French satellite.Planned as the first French satellite, it was launched on 6 December 1965—ten days after the actual first French satellite, Astérix—by an American Scout X-4 rocket from the Western Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
France's first satellite, the Astérix-1, was launched from CIEES on a Diamant rocket on 26 November 1965. [2] CIEES was also the launch site for France's first animal in space: a cat named Félicette, launched to an altitude of 157 kilometres (98 mi) on a Véronique rocket. She survived the flight, making her the only cat to do so. [7]
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Obelix is Asterix's closest friend and works as a menhir sculptor and delivery man. He is a tall, obese man (he refers to himself as "well-padded" or "man with a slipped chest" and will immediately knock out anyone who calls him "fat") with two notable attributes: his permanently phenomenal strength and his voracious appetite for food, especially wild boar.