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A day without satellites?
This would no doubt be a very difficult experience: forget the GPS, do not count on any weather forecasts, and put a cross on television broadcasts of certain sporting events (think about the Football World Cup...), etc. This is the theme on which strolling players based their acts in the streets of Toulouse on the initiative of the CNES, the French Space Agency, as part of the Toulouse Space Show which ends tomorrow.
Credit: CNES/Rachel Barranco

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