Missile-detecting satellites to ride piggyback on Ariane 5

Spirale EADS

EADS Astrium has confirmed plans to launch two prototype optical early-warning micro-satellites as piggyback payloads on an Ariane 5 mission to geostationary transfer orbit in 2008.

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