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Proba liftoff onboard PSLV. Proba was successfully launched on 22 October, 2001.

Credits: ISRO

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Proba PFM during vibration tests.

Credits: Verhaert

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Sriharikota, India, seen from PROBA-1’s CHRIS instrument.

The Project for On-Board Autonomy (Proba) is a technology demonstration mission of the European Space Agency.

CHRIS is a push-broom spectrometer capable of imaging up to 200 spectral bands in the visible range. Together with the scanning and manoeuvring capabilities of the spacecraft it supports Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) measurements used in land, sea and atmospheric observations.

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Instrument : Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS)
Date of Acquisition : 08-02-2002
Instrument Features : 3 bands (466nm, 543nm, 641nm) image, 15 m spatial resolution, 768x1010 pixels

Credits: ESA

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The Mauna Kea volcano, Hawaii 15 April 2002

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The Mauna Kea volcano, Hawaii, seen by PROBA-1’s CHRIS instrument.

The Project for On-Board Autonomy (Proba) is a technology demonstration mission of the European Space Agency.

Technical Information:
Instrument : Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS)
Date of Acquisition : 15-04-2002
Instrument Features : 3 bands (466nm, 543nm, 641nm) image, 15 m spatial resolution, 768x1010 pixels

Credits: ESA

Last update: 27 May 2009

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