Pléiades Neo 3

Pleiades Neo 3 is a commercial very-high-resolution optical satellite operated by Airbus Defence and Space, launched on 29 April 2021 into a sun-synchronous orbit at 620 km.^[1][2] The satellite carries the Pleiades Neo imager, delivering 0.3 m standard ortho products across a 14 km swath in panchromatic and six-band multispectral modes.^[3][4] Pleiades Neo 3 and Pleiades Neo 4, launched in August 2021, form the currently operating pair within the constellation; Pleiades Neo 5 and 6 did not reach orbit following the December 2022 Vega-C launch failure.^[1][4] With same-orbit phasing across the pair, the service achieves daily revisit for tasked areas.^[3] Tasking is commercially available through OneAtlas; a five-year archive exists as of 2026. Applications include urban change monitoring, transport infrastructure inspection, disaster response, land-cover change analysis, agriculture monitoring, maritime surveillance, and defence and intelligence tasking. CEOS records a planned decommission around April 2031.^[2]