SPACEFRANCO-GERMAN CO-OPERATION AGREEMENT.

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A framework agreement was signed in Paris by the French National Space Centre (Centre national d'?tudes spatiales - CNES) and its German counterpart, the German Air and Space Centre (Deutsches Zentrum f?r Luft- und Raumfahrt - DLR), to increase collaboration in space. In addition to cementing existing co-operation on projects such as the automated Martian station Netlander and the Cardiolab space physiology laboratory, the agreement will promote co-operation under the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) and Galileo projects. The co-operation will give...