The PROBA2 mission has been launched on 2nd November2009 with a Rockot launcher to a Sunsynchronous orbit at an altitude of 725 km. Its nominal operation duration is two years with possible extension of 2 years. PROBA2 is a small satellite developed under an ESA General Support Technology Program (GSTP) contract to perform an in-flight demonstration of new space technologies and support a scientific mission for a set of selected instruments. The mission is tracked by the ESA Redu Mission Operation Center.


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    Title :

    Performances of swap on-board PROBA-2


    Contributors:
    Halain, J.-P. (author) / Berghmans, D. (author) / Defise, J.-F. (author) / Rochus, P. (author) / Nicula, B. (author) / de Groof, A. (author) / Seaton, D. (author)

    Conference:

    International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2010 ; 2010 ; Rhodes Island,Greece


    Published in:

    Proc. SPIE ; 10565


    Publication date :

    2017-11-20





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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