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France, Vietnam
Hanoi requesting €235.6m loan from Paris to buy VNREDsat-2 satellite

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An expert works at the ground reception station of the Vietnamese National Centre for Remote Sensing in Hanoi, Vietnam, on 3 May 2013.
An expert works at the ground reception station of the Vietnamese National Centre for Remote Sensing in Hanoi, Vietnam, on 3 May 2013. © VNA/Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

Space cooperation between Paris and Hanoi has always been driven by financial concerns, which have been holding up the VNREDsat-2 earth observation satellite project over the past eight years. Airbus, in the meantime, is playing for time.

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