The Airbus-built CSO-3 (Composante Spatiale Optique) Earth observation satellite for the French Armed Forces, has been successfully launched by Arianespace on Ariane 6’s first commercial flight from the European Spaceport in Kourou.

Ariane-6 launches CSO-3 observation satellite: double success for France and Europe

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CSO-3 is the third of the three-satellite CSO fleet, which will provide extremely high resolution geo-information intelligence to the French Armed Forces and its partners as part of the MUSIS programme.