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SPOT-1 was a French Earth observation satellite launched by the CNES in 1986, marking the inaugural mission of the commercial SPOT satellite program. Operating in a sun-synchronous polar orbit, it was equipped with two HRV (High Resolution Visible) imaging instruments capable of capturing 10-meter p...
COROT (COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits) was a space telescope mission led by the French space agency CNES, launched in December 2006. Equipped with a 27-centimeter afocal telescope, the satellite operated in low Earth orbit to perform high-precision stellar photometry. Its dual scientific...
SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) is a satellite jointly developed by NASA and CNES, the French space agency, with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency and UK Space Agency. Launched on December 15, 2022, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, SWOT is designed to conduct the first global su...
