Main Mission Characteristics
- Role: Earth Observation
- Launch date: 2014
- Launch mass: ~1180 kg
- Launcher: Vega and Rockot
- Launch location: Kourou, French Guiana or Plesetsk/Russia
- Orbit: Sun-synchronous
- Altitude: 786 km
- Orbit cycle: ~100 minutes
- Repeat cycle: 5 days with 2 satellites
- Design lifetime: 7.25 years. The satellites carry additional consumables to enable mission extension to at least 12 years.
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