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France And CNES
With the most recent budget posted in 2012, consisting in 2,5 billion dollars the French have a pretty important role in the space business.
Considered one of the oldest government space agencies, the CNES has its headquarters in Paris and it also can be found in major space centers like the one in Toulouse and Guiana.
For this player on the space map, success was achieved and its wish to share technologies help it to develop a better launching service for future space exploration.
With contributions at the International Space Station and fierce programs in collaboration with the European Space Agency, the French are researching and developing orbital telescopes and a future planetary observation system called E-CORCE.
