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PROBA2: Mission and Spacecraft Overview |
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| Authors: | S Santandrea K Gantois K Strauch F Teston E Tilmans C Baijot D Gerrits A De Groof G Schwehm J Zender |
| Institution: | 1. ESA Directorate of Technical and Quality Management, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands 2. ESA Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations, Redu Ground Station, Redu, Belgium 3. QuinetiQ Space, Kruibeke, Belgium 5. ESA Directorate of Scientific and Robotic Exploration, ESAC, Madrid, Spain 4. ESA Directorate of Scientific and Robotic Exploration, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands |
| 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. |
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