SPOT

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SPOT

Program: SPOT. Objective: Earth. Type: Landsat. Overview: Remote sensing satellite network. Major Events: .

22 February 1986 SPOT 1 Spacecraft: SPOT-1-2-3. Mass: 1,830 kg. Launch Site: Kourou . Launch Vehicle: Ariane 1. More details
Remote sensing satellite. Registration 1986-1.B
22 January 1990 SPOT 2 Spacecraft: SPOT-1-2-3. Mass: 1,870 kg. Launch Site: Kourou . Launch Vehicle: Ariane 4. More details
Remote sensing. Earth observation satellite. Registration 1990-1-B.
26 September 1993 SPOT 3 Spacecraft: SPOT-1-2-3. Mass: 1,907 kg. Launch Site: Kourou . Launch Vehicle: Ariane 4. More details
Remote sensing.
24 March 1998 SPOT 4 Spacecraft: SPOT-4. Mass: 2,755 kg. Launch Site: Kourou . Launch Vehicle: Ariane 4. More details
Developed by Matra Marconi Space/Toulouse for CNES, the satellite provided 10-m resolution images with a wide field of view. SPOT 4 also carried a wide field 'vegetation' imager and a laser communications experiment. Launch was by an Arianespace Ariane 40 rocket, the base Ariane 4 model with no strap-on boosters. The liquid hydrogen fuelled third stage of the Ariane 40 entered an 800 km sun-synchronous orbit together with SPOT 4.

Last update 12 March 2001.
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