Astérix orbits Earth as of December 2020 and is expected to do so for centuries. Its main purpose was to test the Diamant launcher, though it was also designed to study the ionosphere. With Astérix, France became the sixth country to have an artificial satellite and the third country to launch a satellite on its own rocket. It was launched on 26 November 1965 by a Diamant A rocket from the CIEES launch site at Hammaguir, Algeria. Prototype of Astérix at the Musée de l'air et de l'espaceĪstérix or A-1 (initially conceptualized as FR.2 or FR-2) is the first French satellite.
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