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VENµS 
CHARACTERISTICS 
Weight: about 250 kg
Power: about 800 W
Technological mission:
orbit at 410
Scientific mission:
orbit at 720 km

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The VENµS micro-satellite is the result of the cooperation between France and Israel. Its platform is supplied by Israel and its scientific payload is supplied by CNES.
 

The satellite is composed of:

    an IMPS micro-satellite platform (Improved Multi Purpose Satellite) supplied by IAI (Israeli Aerospace Industries),

    a payload which houses:

Characteristics of the multispectral camera
Band Center
(nm)		 Bandwidth
(nm)		 Main objective
1 420 40 Atmospheric correction
2 443 40 Aerosols, clouds
3 490 40 Atmospheric correction
4 555 40 Land
5 620 40 Land
6 620 40 DEM, image quality
7 667 30 Land
8 702 24 Land
9 742 16 Land
10 782 16 Land
11 865 40 Land
12 910 20 Water vapor


Latest update 13/01/2011