Since SPOT 1, Belgium and Sweden have each funded four per cent of programme costs through their national space agencies SSTC and SNSB. This funding enables Belgian and Swedish manufacturers to contribute to the development and production of satellite and ground support equipment.

Although not providing funding for development of the SPOT system itself, Italy and Spain build certain subsystems common to the Helios 2 programme.

Spot Image funded development of the commercial operations ground segment for the SPOT 5 programme.


The HRS mission was developed under a partnership between CNES, Astrium and Spot Image. The sale of products derived by Spot Image will provide 54% of funding, which has been covered up front by Astrium.