SPOT-5A, 5B
SPOT (Satellite Probatoire d'Observation de la Terre) is the French government sponsored civil Earth observation program, with support from Belgium and Sweden. A single SPOT satellite provides complete coverage of the Earth every 26 days. Image products from SPOT are handled by a commercial entity, SPOT-Image Corp. SPOT 5A and 5B are the next generation of this series.
Spacecraft
This is the next generation SPOT spacecraft and no information is available , other than:
3-Axis stabilized, 150 Mbps downlink rate.
Payload
New payload is planned to include the HRG (High Resolution Geometry) instrument.
Each spacecraft will carry 3 HRGs, one looking forward, one looking down, and one
looking aft. The system will provide 5 m resolution in the panchromatic band and 10 m
resolution in the multispectral bands.
| Country of Origin | France |
| Customer/User | CNES, SPOT-Image Corp. |
| Manufacturer(s) | Matra Marconi |
| Launch | 5A: Planned for 2002 5B: Planned for 2007 |
| Orbit | LEO, sun-synchronous, repeating |
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