The Proba-V Companion CubeSat hosts a Proba-V spectral imager provided by OIP Space Instruments.
ESA’s Proba-V mini-satellite was launched by Vega in 2013.
The Visual-Based Sensor on Proba-3 will be used when the satellites are closer than 250 m to each other.
The VESPA adapter is a 113 kg, two-meter-diameter, conical upper portion of a payload adapter associated with the VV02 Vega launch that delivered the Proba-V, VNREDSat-1, and ESTCube-1 satellites into Earth orbit.
The VV02 Vega launch delivered the Proba-V, VNREDSat-1, and ESTCube-1 satellites into Earth orbit.
The Proba-3 system is designed to operate across distances of up to 250 m between the two satellites.
ESA previously used the main corridor of its ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands to test the Proba-3 system in a wide space.
ESA’s pair of Proba-3 Sun-watching satellites have been placed in take-off configuration, one on top of the other, for testing at IABG in Germany.
The Proba-3 satellite platforms were designed by Airbus Defence and Space in Spain.
The Proba-3 Coronagraph spacecraft carries the APIICS coronagraph instrument supplied by Belgium’s Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL).
The Proba-3 satellite platforms were designed by Airbus Defence and Space in Spain.
The Proba-3 orbit will carry the satellites to a maximum distance of 60,530 km from Earth to perform observations at the top of each orbit.
Sener Aerospace’s work has supported missions and programs including HRE, SEOSAT/Ingenio, CHIME, LSTM, Hubble, Rosetta, SMOS, Pléiades, Herschel & Planck, JUICE, Athena, Solar Orbiter, Proba-3, Gaia, BepiColombo, ExoMars, Curiosity, Euclid, LISA Pathfinder, MTG, FLEX, LOP Gateway, Mars2020, Earth Explorers, COPERNICUS, and Galileo.
QinetiQ will provide PROBA platform quality, reliability, and know-how combined with the advantages of operating satellites in Very Low Earth Orbit.
Creotech Instruments collaborates with the European Space Agency on the PROBA-3 precursor mission and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission.
PROBA-1 was launched on a one-year technology demonstration mission in 2001 and was converted after its original assignment to provide operational observations that are still being delivered from orbit.
The P200 platform was developed to provide inherent flexibility demonstrated by previous PROBA missions carrying up to 28 payloads.
The European Space Agency has patented a family of signal compression standards developed using its Proba-2 microsatellite.
ClearSpace-1 is slated to launch in 2025 to capture and deorbit a 100-kilogram Vespa payload adapter left in orbit by an Arianespace Vega after deploying ESA’s Proba-V satellite.
QinetiQ built the three Proba Earth observation satellites launched in 2001, 2009, and 2013.