With the successful launch on Tuesday of the three Ceres satellites, the French army entered the very closed club of powers with space capabilities of "
intelligence of electromagnetic origin
". Only the United States, China and Russia have these capabilities. "
Ceres is a concentrate of innovation
", underlines the general engineer Michel Sayegh, director of the service in charge of space programs at the DGA, the General Directorate of Armaments, which piloted the project entrusted to Airbus and Thales. The "frequency range" treated is very wide: it will identify communications and radar signal emissions.
The electromagnetic intelligence capability is as sensitive and technical as it is essential and secret.
Detecting the emission of signals on the ground and distinguishing military sources from civilians offers decisive operational perspectives.
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