France Unveils LEO Active Space Defense Demo Plan

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French nanosatellite-maker U-Space will lead on development of the Lisa-1 space situational awareness satellite.

Credit: French Defense Innovation Agency
PARIS—The French Defense Ministry is launching a demonstration to validate technologies to monitor threats in low Earth orbit (LEO) and potentially take action in space using a second spacecraft. “It’s probably about time where we consider what is happening in low Earth orbit,” Maj. Gen. Philippe...
Robert Wall

Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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