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SPOT 7
Commercial Multispectral Imaging · Airbus
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The final SPOT satellite completes a series that began Europe's commercial Earth observation industry in 1986. The complete SPOT archive spans nearly four decades of consistent imagery — 40 years of change in agriculture, cities, forests, and coastlines documented from orbit. No other commercial program has observed the same planet for as long.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 431–432 mi (693–695 km)
- Inclination
- 98.1°
- One orbit
- 98.5 minutes14.6 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 40053
- Int’l designator
- 2014-034A
- Launched
- 2014
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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