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by everybodyknows 3365 days ago
Don't see anything about satellite launches on that page -- the only significant capital infrastructure in evidence is a single ground observatory.
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Yep. They are part of ESA and other consortia that have flown satellites (e.g. GAIA and ASTRO-H) however their involvement seems primarily around data processing and analysis etc, not the design or build of space-bound hardware.