CNES Publishes Call for New Rocket Launch Tracking Turrets for French Guiana

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Published on 24 September , the initiative aims to replace aging and partially obsolete equipment currently used to capture imagery of Ariane and Vega launches. The French space agency CNES has issued a call for new automated optical tracking systems for the Guiana Space Centre.

The new system will need to be capable of tracking launch vehicles to altitudes of up to an altitude of 100 kilometres. Published on 24 September, the initiative aims to replace aging and partially obsolete […] The post CNES Publishes Call for New Rocket Launch Tracking Turrets for French Guiana appeared first on European Spaceflight .

CNES said the existing systems are ageing and partially obsolete. The agency wants to replace the manual and semi-automated systems with a fully automated alternative, with tracking tied directly to launch vehicle trajectory data.