• In mid-January 2013, SPOT-6 was officially declared “good to go” (i.e., operational) after the recent completion of technical commissioning. The SPOT-6/-7 satellites are based on the platform family named 500 km x 150 km), consecutive long strip acquisitions (e.g. • Back-end electronics, including video Electronics, data storage and services adapted to the mission specificities. Along with Reference 3D's high location accuracy, the technology allows users to obtain high quality ortho images as well as broad-swath satellite imagery as a complementary to the Pléiades Very High Resolution data. A library of reusable hardware-and mission dependent software elements exists which can be used as basis for construction of individual mission customized software versions. Collection SPOT6-7. Optional SpaceWire interfaces allow for transmission of data at high rates between the OBC and e.g. When SPOT-7 is launched in 2014, there will be 2 x 2 satellites, a true constellation with all spacecraft in the same orbital plane, coherently operated (90° one from the other on the same orbit) through a single interface (Ref. Hence, Spot Image will become the first commercial operator offering two High Resolution satellites (1.5 m imagery) and two Very High Resolution satellites (50 cm range of imagery).

• July 2013: SPOT-6 has successfully passed all tests conducted by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission's in-house science service, and has been contributing to the MARS-CAP (Monitoring Agricultural ResourceS-Common Agricultural Policy) program since July 1, 2013. • In the first quarter of 2013, SPOT-6 collected imagery covering 152 million km The result of this customization offers an unrivalled level of integration and performances.
more than 15 scenes -60 km x 60 km- over a same point in one pass). The CGS is connected to a full scale S-band service, providing access to one or several S-band stations for telemetry and telecommand data exchanges with the SPOT-6 and SPOT-7 satellites.
• The customer Operator Segment also called Exploitation Ground Segment made of:

Both satellites have drawn on technological and operational innovations conceived for some of them for the Pleiades constellation (CMG, FOG) and for others on Astrium’s product lines. Initially the SPOT-6 and SPOT-7 program was code named "AstroTerra" and was an initiative of Spot Image to ensure SPOT service continuity. The detector exhibits excellent characteristics that significantly contribute to the instrument very high optical performance. Depending on the selection of standard design options, AstroBus-L can operate in a variety of Low Earth Orbits at different heights and with different inclinations. The overall control ground segment architecture is based on a well-mastered and efficient design which has been used and improved on several Astrium export programs - like the ground segments for the missions: THEOS (Thailand), AlSat-2 (Algeria), and SSOT (Chile). The MEV provides the F2EM with the primary power supplies and clocks necessary to front-end operation. This S-band service will include at least one polar station, so as to provide maximum access to the satellites. Focal plane is based on a customized high performance detector architecture developed by e2v for Astrium (proprietary architecture). The TDI implementation exhibits an outstanding MTF (Modulation Transfer Function) servicewith an extremely low power consumption. All satellite functions and performance are nominal, in some cases even exceeding specifications. Sufficient FCLs and LCLs in different power classes are provided for platform and payload power distribution and protection. The European subsidies granted to farmers are based on these declarations and their verification. • a one-stop shop for data from the SPOT and TerraSAR-X satellites, and from Pleiades The SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 satellites were designed to continue SPOT-5 mission in obtaining wide-swath high-resolution imagery.

(FISHING PHOTO CONTEST) The Puget Sound spot shrimp fishery, like other fisheries, has seen historically high participation this season. The obtained high-resolution data can be applied in:

With such a performance, entire country maps can be updated for scales of 1:25 000 and even 1:15 000 (Ref. The satellites, to be built by Astrium Satellites Division and launched in September 2012 and late 2013, respectively, will be the first ever built on a private basis and mark a watershed in the geospatial information service industry. The review also included an exhaustive analysis of the in-orbit status of the satellite’s subsystems. The SPOT imagery products offer high resolution over broad areas using the SPOT satellites: SPOT 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (archive only) and 6/7. The sensor’s agility has been thoroughly tested; with scenarios including imaging large areas in a single pass (e.g. - And also stereo collection for 3D models computation and mapping edition up to 1 / 15 000. This allows significantly loosening of optical requirements at the telescope level, while keeping the same overall optical quality at system level; in other words, the same optical quality can be reached from smaller and much lighter telescopes. The goal of the new SPOT-6 and -7 series is to guarantee a sustainable operational service to the end users. The optical assembly is based on a Korsch-type telescope including three aspheric mirrors and two folding mirrors.