Orfeo Programme

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The Orfeo programme is a projected solar physics project of the European Space Agency scheduled for launch in 2017. It's 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.

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European Space Agency

Spaceports	Guiana Space Centre Esrange

Launch vehicles	Ariane 5 Vega

Facilities	ESOC ESTEC ESRIN EAC ESAC

Communications	ESTRACK

Programmes	Aurora Cosmic Vision EGNOS ELIPS FLPP Galileo GMES Sentinel LPP TTP

Predecessors	ELDO ESRO

Related topics	Arianespace ESA Television EUMETSAT ESC GEWEX Planetary Science Archive

Projects

Science

Solar physics	ISEE-2 (1977–1987) Ulysses (1990–2009) SOHO (1995–present) Cluster II (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 (2015) ExoMars (2016, 2018) AIDA (2019) Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (2022) MarcoPolo-R (proposed, 2022) Mars sample return mission (proposed)

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 (2006–2013) Planck (2009–2013) Herschel (2009–2013) Gaia (2013–present) CHEOPS (2017) James Webb (2018) Euclid (2020) EChO (proposed, 2022) LOFT (proposed, 2022) PLATO (proposed, 2022) STE-QUEST (proposed, 2022)

Earth observation	Meteosat First Generation (1977–1997) ERS-1 (1991–2000) ERS-2 (1995–2011) Meteosat Second Generation (2002–present) Envisat (2002–2012) Double Star (2003–2007) MetOp-A (2006–present) GOCE (2009–2013) SMOS (2009–present) CryoSat-2 (2010–present) Swarm (2013–present) Sentinel 1 (2014) Sentinel 2 (2014) Sentinel 3 (2014) ADM-Aeolus (2015) Sentinel 5 Precursor (2015) EarthCARE (2016) Meteosat Third Generation (2017)

ISS spaceflight

ISS contribution (1998–present)
Columbus (2008–present)
Jules Verne (2008)
Cupola (2010–present)
Johannes Kepler (2011)
Edoardo Amaldi (2012)
Albert Einstein (2013)
Georges Lemaître (2014)
European Robotic Arm (2015)

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 System (2015)

Technology
demonstrators

ARD (1998)
PROBA (2001–present)
YES2 (2007)
Proba-2 (2009–present)
Proba-V (2013)
EXPERT (2014)
IXV (2014)
Don Quijote (2015)
LISA Pathfinder (2015)
Proba-3 (2017)
Lunar Lander (2018)

Cancelled

Failed

Current missions in italics.

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