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30th anniversary of Spot-1 launch

Submit on Monday, February 22nd, 2016 22:54

On 22 February 1986, exactly 30 years ago, France’s first civilian optical Earth observation satellite, Spot-1, financed by the French space agency CNES, was launched by an Ariane 1 rocket.

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