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Arianespace, with Russian Soyuz, launches CSO-2 French military satellite
December 29, 2020
The 114th and final orbital launch of 2020 saw a Soyuz ST-A rocket loft the CSO-2 Earth observation satellite for the French Ministry of Defence.
Liftoff occurred at 16:42:07 UTC (11:42:07 EST) on 29 December from the ELS (Ensemble de Lancement Soyouz) launchpad at the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana, an overseas department of France.
The Payload
The only passenger on the 10th and final flight for Arianespace this year the fifth using the Soyuz is the Composante Spatiale Optique -2 (CSO-2) satellite for the French Ministry of Defence.
Launched in cooperation with the French (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales CNES) space agency and the DGA (Direction générale de l’armement) defense procurement agency, the 25th flight of a Soyuz from French Guiana took the defense- and security-aligned Earth observation satellite toward a Sun-synchronous orbit.