PROBA2: Mission and Spacecraft Overview
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OBA2: Mission and Spacecraft Overview S. Santandrea · K. Gantois · K. Strauch · F. Teston · PROBA2 Project Team · E. Tilmans · C. Baijot · D. Gerrits · PROBA2 Industry Team · A. De Groof · G. Schwehm · J. Zender
Received: 22 April 2012 / Accepted: 25 March 2013 / Published online: 9 April 2013 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Abstract Within the European Space Agency’s (ESA) General Support and Technology Programme (GSTP), the Project for On-Board Autonomy (PROBA) missions provide a platform for in-orbit technology demonstration. Besides the technology demonstration goal, the satellites allow to provide services to, e.g., scientific communities. PROBA1 has been providing multi-spectral imaging data to the Earth observation community for a decade, and PROBA2 provides imaging and irradiance data from our Sun to the solar community. This article gives an overview of the PROBA2 mission history and provides an introduction to the flight segment, the ground segment, and the payload operated onboard. Important aspects of the satellite’s design, including onboard software autonomy and the functionality of the navigation and guidance, are discussed. PROBA2 successfully proved again within the GSTP concept that it is possible to provide a fast and cost-efficient satellite design and to combine advanced technology objectives from industry with focussed objectives from the science community.
PROBA2 – First Two Years of Solar Observation Guest Editors: David Berghmans, Anik De Groof, Marie Dominique, and Jean-François Hochedez S. Santandrea · K. Gantois · K. Strauch · F. Teston · PROBA2 Project Team ESA Directorate of Technical and Quality Management, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands S. Santandrea e-mail: [email protected] E. Tilmans · C. Baijot ESA Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations, Redu Ground Station, Redu, Belgium D. Gerrits · PROBA2 Industry Team QuinetiQ Space, Kruibeke, Belgium G. Schwehm · J. Zender () ESA Directorate of Scientific and Robotic Exploration, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands e-mail: [email protected] A. De Groof ESA Directorate of Scientific and Robotic Exploration, ESAC, Madrid, Spain
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Keywords PROBA2 · Ground segment · Flight segment · Science operations centre 1. Introduction The Project for On-Board Autonomy (PROBA) is the second microsatellite mission of the European Space Agency’s programme for in-orbit technology demonstration. The main objective of the PROBA missions is the demonstration and validation in flight of innovative space technologies and techniques, in order to promote their utilisation in future space missions. The PROBA platforms are hence designed to accommodate and provide sufficient resources to a number of selected technology experiments, and to offer an opportunity for technology characterisation in the real space environment. Other objectives are the proof of concept and verification in the framework of a real space mission, the demonstration of innovative approaches and techniques in the areas of onboard softw
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