France Approves Taranis Microsat

MICROSAT APPROVED: French space agency CNES has approved full-scale development of a microsatellite mission, dubbed Taranis, aimed at studying magnetospheric-ionospheric-atmospheric coupling involved in lightning, sprites and other transient optical phenomena, as well as precipitated energy...

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