{"id":73422,"date":"2015-08-22T01:56:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T17:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/airbus-defence-and-space-provides-spot-6-and-7-imagery-to-sansa\/"},"modified":"2015-08-22T01:56:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T17:56:22","slug":"airbus-defence-and-space-provides-spot-6-and-7-imagery-to-sansa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/airbus-defence-and-space-provides-spot-6-and-7-imagery-to-sansa\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus Defence and Space Provides Spot 6 and 7 Imagery to SANSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 08-21-2015] <b>Airbus Defence and Space <\/b>has completed an imagery project covering all of South Africa in three months using the Spot 6 and Spot 7 twin satellites. A Direct Receiving Station (DRS) at the <b>South African National Space Agency <\/b>(SANSA) enabled coverage of the 1,221,000 square kilometer country at 1.5-meter resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus Defence and Space and SANSA have worked together on remote sensing since a Spot 1 data reception contract in 1989. In 2014 engineers upgraded the DRS to receive Spot 6 and 7 data. Imagery from the two satellites is now available for ordering from SANSA and new acquisitions are already ongoing to support a second country coverage during the remainder of 2015. The creation of a 1.5m seamless country mosaic is also planned for yearend.<\/p>\n<p>Spot 6 and Spot 7 orbit at 694 kilometers and are phased 180 degrees apart. Each spacecraft can collect up to three million square kilometers of imagery per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 08-21-2015] Airbus Defence and Space has completed an imagery project covering all of South Africa in three months using the Spot 6 and Spot 7 twin satellites. A Direct Receiving Station (DRS) at the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) enabled coverage of the 1,221,000 square kilometer country at 1.5-meter resolution. Airbus Defence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}