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The French space agency CNES handed
over responsibility for commercial operation of SPOT 5 to SPOT IMAGE, which
will now be distributing imagery acquired by the new satellite worldwide.
After being placed in orbit by an Ariane 4 launcher on 4 May 2002 from the
Guiana Space Centre, Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, SPOT 5 has
successfully completed two months of in-orbit tests and is now fully
operational. Since being placed in orbit, SPOT 5 has already acquired 23,
000 scenes.
Tests performed during in-orbit checkout have shown that: