SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — (Marketwire) — 01/30/13 — Pléiades 1B, the Centre National d-Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Earth observation satellite, has captured its first images using high performance imaging sensors. Two types of e2v sensors (for panchromatic and multispectral imaging) equip the satellites high-resolution optical imaging instrument; these were selected by Thales Alenia Space, who is providing the HR instrument to Astrium, developed under CNES contract.Pléiades 1B has been
