Can replace Maxar for the Armed Forces: France has launched a powerful CSO-3 satellite-Defense Express

To spread: The French satellite CSO-3 can take pictures in a 3D format with high resolution in both night and daytime. France on March 6, 2025 launched a new CSO-3 reconnaissance satellite with a high resolution from the Guiana Space Center. Data from this satellite will probably be able to receive the Defense forces of Ukraine, consider Defense Express. It is reported that the CSO-3 satellite is able to take pictures in a 3D format with high resolution in visible and infrared strips.

It equally qualitatively monitors both night and daytime. According to the plans, CSO-3 has been working in orbit for 10 years. Given the statement of French Defense Minister Sebastian Lecorton about the transfer of reconnaissance data to Ukraine, the publication suggested that Ukraine's defense forces would also receive images of high resolution from the CSO-3 satellite. According to the portal, the CSO-3 launch was initially planned for December, but was postponed on February 26.

Then the start was postponed to March 3, but a few minutes before the start, they found a technical problem with the gas station valve. In the end, the European rocket launcher Ariane 6 launched CSO-3 in orbit on March 6 at 5:24 pm. Earlier, the satellites of this series CSO-1 and CSO-2 were launched by Russian missiles from the Guiana Space Center. After the start of a full -scale war in Ukraine in France, they decided to abandon the technologies of the Russian Federation.