OPSAT 3000 & VENµS

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.

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.