page_title: Spot Image
section_title: Satellites
hierarchical_section_title: Spot Image / Satellites
context_page_description: Spot Image, a public limited company created in 1982 by the French Space Agency, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, the IGN, and Space Manufacturers is a subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space. The company is the commercial operator for the SPOT Earth observation satellites.
context_section_description: The 3 SPOT satellites in orbit (Spot  5, 6, and 7) provide images with a large choice of resolutions – from 2.5 m to 10 m. Spot Image also distributes multiresolution data from other optical satellites, in particular from Formosat-2 (Taiwan) and Kompsat-2 (South Korea), for which it has exclusive distribution rights, and from radar satellites (TerraSAR-X, ERS, Envisat, Radarsat). Spot Image is also  the exclusive distributor of data from the very-high resolution Pleiades satellites. The launch of Pléiades-1, via a Soyuz rocket, was confirmed on December 16, 2011.  The second (Pléiades-2) was launched mid-2012.  Spot Image also offers infrastructures for receiving and processing, as well as added value options.
caption: SPOT 5 Satellite
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