Orfeo Programme

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COSMO-Skymed X-band Earth-sensing satellite

Pleiades optical Earth-sensing satellite

Orfeo is composed of 6 next-generation, high-resolution satellites: 4 Cosmo-Skymed X-band satellites from Italy, and 2 Pleiades optical satellites from France.

Spain, Belgium, Sweden and Austria will also be users of this system.

External links

CNES website info on Orfeo
Alenia Spazio (Finmeccanica) COSMO-Skymed webpage

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