Engineering:PROBA-V CubeSat Companion
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| Operator | 23px European Space Agency |
|---|---|
| COSPAR ID | 2023-155K |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft type | 12U CubeSat |
| Manufacturer |  Aerospacelab |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 9 October 2023 |
| Rocket | Vega |
| Launch site | Guiana Space Centre |
The PROBA-V CubeSat Companion (PVCC) is a technology demonstration and Earth observation satellite by the European Space Agency (ESA).[1][2][3][4] It is hosting one spectral imager, a spare unit built for the PROBA-V's Vegetation instrument (VGT). The VGT instrument itself was originally developed for the French SPOT satellites. PVCC's goal is to test the abilities of a small CubeSat platform using a well-understood instrument and to cross-calibrate its vegetation growth observations with the Copernicus programme's Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 missions.[5][6][7] PVCC was launched on the Vega rocket flight VV23 in October 2023.[8][9][10]
See also
- List of European Space Agency programmes and missions
- PROBA satellite series
References
- ↑ "PROBA V-CC (PVCC)" (in en). https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/proba-v-cc.htm.
- ↑ Kulu, Erik. "Proba-V Companion CubeSat" (in en). https://www.nanosats.eu/sat/proba-v-companion-cubesat.html.
- ↑ "WMO OSCAR Satellite: PROBA-V-CC". https://space.oscar.wmo.int/satellites/view/proba_v_cc.
- ↑ "SatNOGS DB - PVCC". https://db.satnogs.org/satellite/NTXV-3568-8556-1732-1226/.
- ↑ "Big Earth Imager To Be Tested On A Small Vega CubeSat". https://spacenews.com/big-earth-imager-to-be-tested-on-a-small-vega-cubesat/.
- ↑ "PROBA-V's companion explores low-cost remote sensing - Earth Online". https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/news/proba-v-s-companion-explores-low-cost-remote-sensing.
- ↑ "PROBA-V (Project for On-Board Autonomy - Vegetation) and Companion CubeSat - eoPortal" (in en). https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/proba-v.
- ↑ Graham, William (2023-10-06). "Arianespace's Vega launches 12 satellites on VV23 mission" (in en-US). https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/10/vega-vv23/.
- ↑ "PROBA-V's companion satellite launched succesfully [sic] | PROBA-V". https://proba-v.vgt.vito.be/en/proba-vs-companion-satellite-launched-succesfully.
- ↑ Collaud, Xavier; Viitalà, Mikko; Billast, Maud (2025-03-21). "Proba-V companion CubeSat (PVCC) mission first light and commissioning". in Petrozzi-Ilstad, Max. Small Satellites Systems and Services Symposium (4S 2024). SPIE. pp. 31. doi:10.1117/12.3061321. ISBN 978-1-5106-8894-0. https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/13546/3061321/Proba-V-companion-CubeSat-PVCC-mission-first-light-and-commissioning/10.1117/12.3061321.full.
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