Payload
PROBA-2
OperationalPayloadLEO
PROBA-2 is a European Space Agency (ESA) payload satellite, launched on November 2, 2009 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 2, 2009 at 01:50 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Rokot/Briz-KM →
- Operator
- Eurockot Launch Services
- Mission
- SMOS
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 718 km
- Periapsis
- 701 km
- Inclination
- 98.24°
- Orbital period
- 98.98 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency (ESA)
- Manufacturer
- Verhaert Design and Development NV (leading a European consortium)
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 130 kg
- Power
- 86 W
- Design lifetime
- 2 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-059B
- NORAD catalog №
- 36037
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 0.442 m²
- Status
- Operational