SMALL SPOT

France's national space agency (CNES) is studying two smaller Earth remote sensing satellites as a cost-saving way to continue the SPOT line after SPOT-5. Under a program known as "Suite du Systeme SPOT" ("3S"), CNES is studying a 500-kilogram platform that could be ready as early as 2002 to fill...

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