French Launch Vehicles

Launch vehicles of France, led by the Diamant family developed by the French space agency CNES and flown from the Hammaguir range in the Algerian Sahara and later from French Guiana. Diamant carried the Asterix satellite into orbit in 1965 and made France the third country to launch a satellite on its own rocket. A rocket belongs here when its cited article calls it a French launch vehicle. Members are placed here from their own cited sources, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.