France: Forty-eight hours after launch, Astrium has delivered the first VNREDsat-1 images. Astrium is prime contractor for the Vietnam Natural Resources, Environment, Disaster Satellite, the first Vietnamese earth observation satellite. The Astrium-built VNREDSat-1 was launched on May 7 from Kourou.
The pictures show Hanoi’s Red River (on top) and the city of Melbourne (at bottom) at a resolution of 2.5 metres.
Source: Astrium
