As a clockwork

In English SPOT4 (Take 5)

Olivier Hagolle, 1 février 2013

(version française)So far, so good for SPOT4 (Take5) experiment ! First images were acquired yesterday (January the 31st), and will be downloaded to earth tomorrow (February the 2nd), but moreover, CNES programmed two acquisitions this morning followed by a download, so that we may check that everything goes well before the week-end. And, as a matter of fact……everything went as a clockwork : the download, inventory, upload to Astrium catalogue, and level 1A production. One of the pictures was taken above Ukraine, and the other one above Kuwait. One of them was cloudy, here is the other one.

 

 

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