OPSAT 3000 & VENµS

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

01:58:33

Wednesday August 2, 2017

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VENµS

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Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New Micro-Satellite (VENµS) is a near-polar sun-synchronous orbit microsatellite being jointly built by the Israeli Space Agency and CNES.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

265 kilograms

OPSAT 3000

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OPTSAT-3000, whose mission is also referred to as SHALOM (Spaceborne Hyperspectral Applicative Land and Ocean Mission), is a small Italian optical reconnaissance satellite developed by the Israeli company Israel Aerospace Industries. OPSAT-3000 is a 3-axis stabilized satellite with a mass of 400 kg. It is 4.58 meters long with a diameter of 1.2 meters. Once its solar panels are deployed, its wingspan reaches 4.6 meters. The OPSAT-3000 platform of the satellite derives from the platform of the Israeli reconnaissance satellite Ofeq 3 (OPSAT-1000 platform) improved with the Ofeq 5 to 9 satellites (OPSAT-2000 platform) from which derives the TecSAR platform used by the radar reconnaissance satellites developed by the Israeli industry. The first satellite to use the new platform was Ofeq-11 launched in 2016. The platform is powered by two sets of solar panels deployed in orbit. The payload consists of the Jupiter camera whose optics is a 70 cm diameter telescope that powers two sensors. A panchromatic detector provides images with a spatial resolution of 0.5 meters. The second detector provides multispectral images with a resolution of 2 meters. The swath is 15 kilometers.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

368 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Vega

Active 2012 to 2024

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Manufacturer

ESA

Price

$37.00 million

Rocket

Diameter: 3.025m

Height: 29.9m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 1,436 kg

Liftoff Thrust

2,200 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 2.6m

Height: 7.88m

Stages

4

Launch Site

ELV

Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana, France

Fastest Turnaround

75 days

Stats

Vega


10th

Mission

2nd

Mission of 2017

European Space Agency


252nd

Mission

8th

Mission of 2017

2017


48th

Orbital launch attempt