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Subject: The Friendly Skies - Don't look up; Spy Satellites See IT ALL
this is an extract, go and see for yourself
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB13/index.html
SPOT, an acronym for Le Systeme Pour l'Observation de la Terre, is
operated by the
French national space agency. SPOT 1 was launched in 1986, followed
by three
additional satellites at approximately four year intervals. SPOT
satellites operate in
about 500-mile orbits, and carry two sensor systems. The satellites
can return black
and white (panchromatic) images with 33 foot resolution and
multispectral images with
67 foot resolution. The images are of higher-resolution than
LANDSAT's but cover
less territory-- approximately 36 miles by 36 miles.28