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Mms to Build Taiwanese Sat
Paris After a year of political wrangling, the Taiwanese government has finally selected Matra Marconi Space to supply a high-resolution Earth observation satellite, the first such system ever exported by a European country. The award, worth 2.37 billion Taiwan dollars ($75 million), was announced on Dec. 9 by Huang Chen-tai, chairman of Taiwan’s science coun cil, which is responsible for the national space program.