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Third Party Missions
Through the Third Party Missions programme, ESA offers data from a wide range of EO satellite missions developed and operated by other agencies.
Mission - Third Party Missions
WorldView-3
WorldView-3 is the first multi-payload, super-spectral, high-resolution commercial satellite sensor operating at an altitude of 617 km. WorldView-3 is capable of collecting up to 680,000 square km per day.
Mission - Third Party Missions
WorldView-2
WorldView-2 is an environment-monitoring satellite from Maxar which presents images as the human eye can perceive them, creating a more realistic 'true colour' view of the world.
Mission - Third Party Missions
WorldView-1
WorldView-1 helped meet the growing commercial demand for multi-spectral geospatial imagery.
Mission - Third Party Missions
WorldView Series
The WorldView constellation are environment-monitoring satellites that have been supplying imagery since 2007.
Mission - Third Party Missions
Vision-1
Launched on 16 September 2018, Vision-1 offers orthorectified products with resolution up to 87 cm in panchromatic mode and 3.48 in multispectral mode as standard.
Mission - Third Party Missions
TanSat
The TanSat mission is one of the Earth Observation projects managed by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and is dedicated to detecting and monitoring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Mission - Third Party Missions
SPOT 6
SPOT 6, like all the SPOT missions, is aimed at supplying high-resolution, wide-area optical imagery.
Mission - Heritage Missions
SPOT
The SPOT (from French "Satellite pour l'Observation de la Terre") series of missions has been supplying high-resolution, wide-area optical imagery since 1986.
Mission - Third Party Missions
Spire
Spire Global's constellation of Lemur nanosatellites offer satellite-based maritime, aviation and weather tracking.
Mission - Third Party Missions
SkySat
SkySat is a constellation of high-resolution Earth imaging satellites from the commercial company Planet Labs.
Mission - Third Party Missions
SCISAT-1
SCISAT-1 is designed to make observations of Earth's atmosphere and its main instruments are an optical Fourier transform infrared spectrometer and an ultraviolet spectrophotometer.
Mission - Third Party Missions
SAOCOM
The SAOCOM (SAtélite Argentino de Observación COn Microondas) satellite series represents Argentina's approved polarimetric L-band SAR constellation of two spacecraft. It's objective is to provide an effective Earth observation and disaster monitoring capability.
Mission - Third Party Missions
PROBA-1
PROBA-1 is a technology demonstration satellite that later became an operational Earth observation mission.
Mission - Third Party Missions
Pléiades Neo
Pléiades Neo is a very high resolution optical constellation of two identical satellites phased at 180° from each other.
Mission - Third Party Missions
Pleiades
The Pleiades programme followed the SPOT programme satellite series, introducing advanced technologies in Earth observation.
Mission - Third Party Missions
PlanetScope
The PlanetScope satellite constellation consists of multiple launches of groups of individual cubesats (DOVEs).
Mission - Third Party Missions
Odin
Odin is an atmosphere-studying satellite mission from Sweden, Canada, France and Finland.
Mission - Third Party Missions
OceanSat-2
OceanSat-2 provides service continuity for the operational users of the OCM (Ocean Colour Monitor) instrument launched in 1999 on board the predecessor IRS-P4/OceanSat-1 mission.
Mission - Third Party Missions
Landsat-8
Landsat-8 is an Earth-imaging satellite from USGS and NASA which launched in 2013. The Landsat programme provides a global archive of satellite imagery.
Mission - Third Party Missions
Landsat-7
Landsat-7 is a joint USGS and NASA-led Earth observation mission, which was launched in 1999 and remains operational.