法国国家空间局正在开展对大型环绕地球运行的空间站系统的研究,它最终可能由法国提出作为欧洲多国空间方案。由国家空间研究中心从事空间站方案,它起着协调法国有关空间活动的部门的作用。法国航空空间公司按照跟国家空间研究中心签订的合同,刚刚完成对自动化轨道设施的广泛评价,另一项合同有指望授予玛特拉(Matra)公司进行补充研究。象目前所设想的那样,在九十年代,有可能使用 The French National Space Agency is conducting a study of a large-scale orbiting space station system that could eventually be proposed by France as a multinational space program for Europe. The space station program, carried out by the National Research Center for Space Research, plays a role in coordinating the departments of France on space activities. According to the contract signed with the National Space Research Center, Aeroflot has just completed its extensive evaluation of automated orbital facilities and the other contract is expected to be awarded to Matra for additional study. As currently envisaged, it is possible to use it in the nineties