Enabling & Support
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| Proba-2
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| 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) |
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