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The missions of the MYRIADE series
 

The first mission, DEMETER (Study the Earth's electromagnetic environment and the earthquakes forecast), has been launched on June 29th, 2004 from Baikonour and is now in operational phase.

The PARASOL mission has been launched on December 18th, 2004 from Kourou and study the properties of aerosols and clouds of the Earth's atmosphere. The platform and payload function perfectly.

The PICARD mission has been launched on June 15th, 2010 from Baikonour by a DNEPR lancher. It will study the Sun and its impact on the climatology of the Earth.

Several missions are under development in the MYRIADE microsatellite series:

    TARANIS (2016) Study of the atmosphere-ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling during atmospheric storms.
    MICROSCOPE (2015) Test of the Equivalence Principle.

There are three additional missions financed by the French Armament Agency:

    The ESSAIM constellation, 4 satellites, was successfully launched on December 18th, 2004 from Kourou together with Parasol. Prime contractorship ASTRIUM.
    The SPIRALE demonstrator, 2 satellites. Prime contractorship ALCATEL/ASTRIUM.
    The ELISA mission, 4 satellites. Prime contractorship ASTRIUM.

At last, 4 missions are industrial contrats :

    ALSAT 2A, Algeria: 1 satellite.
    SSOT Chili: 1 satellite.
    ALSAT 2B Algeria: 1 satellite.
    Vn RedSat, Vietnam: 1 satellite.


Latest Update 13/10/2011

 
DEMETER MISSION
  DEMETER  
PARASOL MISSION
  PARASOL  
PICARD MISSION
  PICARD  
MICROSCOPE MISSION
  MICROSCOPE