Orfeo Programme

The Orfeo programme is composed of 6 next-generation, high-resolution satellites: 4 Cosmo-Skymed X-band satellites from Italy, and 2 Pleiades optical satellites from France.

Spain, Belgium, Sweden and Austria will also be users of this system.

External links

Ariane 5 · Vega (2012)
Facilities
Communications
Programmes
Predecessors

ELDO · ESRO
Related
 
Science
Solar Physics
ISEE-2 (1977-1987) · Ulysses (1990-2009) · SOHO (1995-present) · Cluster (2000-present) · Solar Orbiter (2017)
Planetary Science
Giotto (1985-1992) · Huygens (1997-2005) · SMART-1 (2003-2006) · Mars Express (2003-present) · Rosetta (2005-present) · Venus Express (2005-present) · BepiColombo (2014) · ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (2016) · ExoMars EDM (2016) · ExoMars Rover (2018) · Mars sample return mission (proposal/2020-2022) · Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (proposal/2020) · MarcoPolo-R (proposal/2022)
Astronomy
and Cosmology
Cos-B (1975-1982) · IUE (1978-1996) · EXOSAT (1983-1986) · Hipparcos (1989-1993) · Hubble (1990-present) · Eureca (1992-1993) · ISO (1995-1998) · XMM-Newton (1999-present) · INTEGRAL (2002-present) · COROT (2006-present) · Planck (2009-present) · Herschel (2009-present) · Gaia (2013) · JWST (2018) · Euclid (2019) · IXO (proposal/2020) · LISA (proposal/2020) · EChO (proposal/2022) · LOFT (proposal/2022) · Plato (proposal/2022) · STE-QUEST (proposal/2022)
Earth Observation
Meteosat First Generation (1977-1997) · ERS-1 (1991-2000) · ERS-2 (1995-2011) · Meteosat Second Generation (2002-present) · Envisat (2002-present) · Double Star (2003-2007) · MetOp-A (2006-present) · GOCE (2009-present) · SMOS (2009-present) · CryoSat-2 (2010-present) · Swarm (2012) · Sentinel 1 (2013) · ADM-Aeolus (2013) · Sentinel 2 (2014) · EarthCARE (2016) · Sentinel 3 (2017) · Meteosat Third Generation (2017)
Human
Spaceflight
Columbus (2008-present) · Jules Verne (2008) · Cupola (2010-present) · Johannes Kepler (2011) · Edoardo Amaldi (2012) · European Robotic Arm (2012) · Albert Einstein (2013) · ATV-005 (2014)
Telecommunications
GEOS 2 (1978) · Olympus-1 (1989-1993) · Artemis (2001-present) · GIOVE-A (2005-present) · GIOVE-B (2008-present) · HYLAS (2010-present) · Galileo IOV (2011) · Galileo FOC (2012) · European Data Relay Satellite (2012)
Technology
Demontrators
ARD (1998) · PROBA (2001-present) · YES2 (2007) · Proba-2 (2009-present) · EXPERT (2011) · Proba-V (2012) · IXV (2013) · LISA Pathfinder (2013) · Proba-3 (2015/16) · MoonNext (2018)
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