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Ground testing for Prisma
At the Toulouse Space Centre belonging to the CNES, the French Space Agency, a model of the Swedish Prisma satellite is shown undergoing tests in an anechoic chamber (the points remove echoes – hence the adjective anechoic – which would cause interference as regards the measurements).
Credit: CNES/Emmanuel Grimault

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