CNES Studying New Multifunction LEO Satellite Bus

French space agency CNES is refining a concept for a new multifunction bus that could serve a wide variety of low-Earth-orbit missions. The bus, suitable for spacecraft in the 500-800-kg. class, would replace the Proteus platform, developed in the late 1990s. Thales Alenia Space, which supplies...

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