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Proba-2
Launch:2 November 2009 (auxiliary passenger of SMOS)
Launcher:Rockot
Launch site:Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
Orbit:Altitude between 700 km and 800 km, Sun-synchronous, Inclination 98.298 degrees
Attitude control:Sun-pointing with automatic manoeuvring
Nominal life:2 years
Size:600 x 700 x 850 mm
Mass:130 kg
Power consumption:53–86 watts
RF:S-band, 64 kbit/s uplink; 1 Mbit/s downlink
Mission cost:€18 million (excluding launcher and operations)
Ground station, mission control and processing/archiving:Redu (Belgium)
Data download to:Redu (Belgium) and Svalbard (Norway)
Number of new technologies to be tested:17
Number of scientific experiments:4
Developed by:Consortium led by QinetiQ Space (formerly Verhaert) nv of Belgium, a subsidiary of QinetiQ (GB)
 
 
Last update: 4 October 2010
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