Conveners
ALTIUS: Mission objectives and status
- Didier Fussen (IASB)
- Emmanuel Dekemper (Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy)
Christine Bingen
(BIRA-IASB),
Didier Fussen
(BIRA-IASB),
Martine De Mazière
(BIRA-IASB)
02/05/2017, 09:00
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Dr
Didier Fussen
(BIRA-IASB)
02/05/2017, 09:20
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Belgium has proposed the ALTIUS (Atmospheric Limb Tracker for the Investigation of the Upcoming Stratosphere) mission to ESA as a stratospheric ozone profiler with complementary scientific objectives. It has now been approved as an EarthWatch mission in the ESA-Earth Observation programme. It will be operated from a micro-satellite of the PROBA class orbiting in a 700 km heliosynchronous...
Mr
Jean-Christophe Schyns
(BELSPO)
02/05/2017, 09:40
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Earth observation is since a long time a priority for Belgium. In 1984 our Country was already associated with France on the SPOT optical imaging system for the observation of the earth with a focus on the agriculture. In the same period Belgium launched its national earth observation programme still financing universities and research institutions.
Later, other Spot satellites have embarked...
Dirk Bernaerts
(ESA)
02/05/2017, 10:00
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