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Satellite Starlette above the Earth - Illustration

by

CNES/D.Ducros/Novapix

Reference

e-sat01-92000

Date

2009-04-14

Starlette was a french artificial satellite launched on february 6 1975 by a rocket of type Diamant BP4. This small sphere was covered with laser retroreflectors; it helped considerably in the knowledge of global and large scale Earth gravity.