France's new 'space force' will launch satellites equipped with machine guns and lasers. ... discusses the new French space force in a speech at Airbase 942 in Lyon-Mont Verdun, on July 25, 2019.

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency celebrated France's Bastille Day holiday in space with festive shirts and a meal with friends on July 14, 2021 aboard the International ...

PARIS – By 2030, France plans to have an active capability to defend the space assets its armed forces rely upon, said Eva Portier, space deputy in the French armament agency DGA.

The election of French president Emmanuel Macron in 2017 was an inflection point for France’s space security policy and ushered in a flurry of space strategy and policy documents, as well as military ...

Macron did not mention what investment would be necessary to create a French space force, though AFP notes France's 2019-2025 military spending plan has $4 billion USD for space defense.. Macron's ...

The French Defense Ministry is on track to create a Joint Space Command by July 1, the director of the new entity said April 19. This will give Europe’s premier space power a single point of ...

Does French wine pair well with space? A European startup sent a dozen bottles of Bordeaux to the International Space Station to find out. The wine was sent up from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility ...

Europe is poised to regain independent access to space next week, when the long-awaited Ariane 6 rocket performs its inaugural flight from Kourou, French Guiana.

The Space ISAC and French Space Command signed an MOU during the CYSAT USA conference April 9 in Colorado Springs. Credit: Space ISAC The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC ...

NEW DELHI: Indo-French space collaboration received a boost on Monday when a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between representatives of Indian space industries , Indian Space ...

Business France India is pleased to announce the successful completion of the 2nd edition of the French Space Days India in partnership with CNES and Embassy of France in India, held from May 19 ...