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Proba-V is a miniaturised ESA satellite tasked with a full-scale mission: to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days.

Proba-V facts and figures

Launch date:

02:06 GMT on 7 May 2013 (23:06 local time 6 May; 04:06 CEST 7 May)

Mass:

140 kg

Orbit:

Sun-synchronous polar orbit, 820 km altitude, crossing the equator every morning between 10:30 and 11:00 local time

Instrument:

New version of the Vegetation imager previously flown on the Spot satellites

Guest technology payloads:

Gallium nitride amplifier incorporated in communication subsystem; Energetic Particle Telescope; SATRAM radiation monitor, ADS-B aircraft signal detector; fibre optic photonics experiment

Prime contractor:

QinetiQ Space Belgium

Payload developer:

OIP Sensor Systems

Ground segment:

Satellite’s mission control centre in Redu, Belgium complemented by a ground station for data reception, and a processing and archiving centre at VITO in Belgium.

The exploitation phase of Proba-V will be managed by ESA from ESRIN, ESA’s Earth observation centre in Italy.

Launcher:

Vega


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