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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
Dhananjay Khadilkar

Paris space club's experiments fly high on Ariane 6

The PariSat experiment took stunning photos of the Earth. © GAREF AEROSPATIAL

PariSat, one of the experiments that is now on board the first flight of Ariane 6, was developed by members of GAREF Aerospatial, an amateur space club based in Paris.

According to GAREF's Elias Alaoui Chrifi, PariSat consists of two experiments, one of which will look at the thermal radiation of different materials in space. "The second is a photography experiment that will take pictures of our planet," he said.

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