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The Spot programme was initiated by the French government in 1978 because it wanted the country to have its own Earth observation and photo-reconnaissance technology. Spot itself was designed primarily for civilian purposes while the similar Helios satellite project was for military reconnaissance. The go-ahead for the project came six years after the 1972 launch of the first US Landsat satellite to conduct mineral and crop surveys and monitor pollution.
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R. Bonnet quoted in J. M. Lenorovitz, ‘Giotto redirected to fly past Earth after returning data on Halley’s’, Aviation Week and Space Technology, Vol. 124 (24 March 1986) p. 22.
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Collins, G. (1990). Remote Sensing, Comets and the Lure of Mars. In: Europe in Space. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10125-2_9
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