ASTRIUM SPACECRAFT

The European Space Agency has picked Astrium to build its second Earth Explorer satellite, dubbed Aeolus (see illustration). The one-metric-ton spacecraft, to be placed in a Sun-synchronous orbit 400 km. above the Earth, will carry the Aladin atmospheric laser Doppler lidar already in early...

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