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As a demonstration of a unique partnership between China and France in tackling climate change, the CFOSat has won support from governments of both countries.
Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the CNES, depicted the space cooperation between the two countries as "very active", saying that another joint mission, an astronomical satellite named SVOM (Space-based multiband astronomical Variable Objects Monitor), is now under preparation and expected to launch in 2020.
With growing economic and technological strength, China has become an important space player, attracting more and more European countries to work with it in probing the universe.
In 2005, China's two space science satellites joined with the satellites of the European Space Agency to complete the world's first joint, synchronous six-point exploration of the earth's space. It was the first science satellite cooperation between China and Europe.
One of the detectors on China's Dark Matter Particle Explorer, launched in 2017, was jointly developed by scientists from China, Switzerland and Italy. China's space lab Tiangong-2, launched in 2016, carries a gamma ray polarization detector developed by scientists from China, Switzerland and Poland.
"China has always held an open attitude in space exploration and cooperation. We have signed more than 100 such cooperation agreements with more than 30 countries and over 10 international organizations," said Wu Yanhua, deputy head of the CNSA.
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