Orfeo Programme

The Orfeo programme is an agreement to implement co-operation for setting up an Earth observation capability using optical and radar sensors, and mainly to define the context in which the dual-purpose system (military and civilian) is to be developed and used. It is currently 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 Arianespace Soyuz Vega

Facilities	ESOC ESTEC ESRIN EAC ESAC ECSAT CDF ST-ECF

Communications	ESTRACK European Data Relay System

Programmes	Aurora Copernicus Sentinel Cosmic Vision EGNOS ELIPS ExoMars FLPP Galileo LPP Space Situational Awareness Programme

Predecessors	ELDO ESRO

Related topics	Arianespace ESA Television EUMETSAT European Space Camp GEWEX Planetary Science Archive

Projects and missions

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/Philae (2004–present) Venus Express (2005–2014) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (2016) BepiColombo (2017) ExoMars rover (2018) AIDA (2020) Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (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 (2006–2013) Planck (2009–2013) Herschel (2009–2013) Gaia (2013–present) CHEOPS (2017) James Webb (2018) Euclid (2020) PLATO (2024) ATHENA (2028) LISA (2034)

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 (2006–present) GOCE (2009–2013) SMOS (2009–present) CryoSat-2 (2010–present) Swarm (2013–present) Sentinel-1 (2014–present) Sentinel-2 (2015–present) Sentinel-3A (2016–present) Sentinel-5 Precursor (2016) Meteosat Third Generation (Sentinel-4) (2017) ADM-Aeolus (2017) EarthCARE (2018) MetOp-SG-A (2021) SMILE (2021) MetOp-SG-B (2022) FLEX (2022)

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 (2017)

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–present)
Galileo FOC (2014–present)
European Data Relay System (2015)

Technology
demonstrators

ARD (1998)
PROBA (2001–present)
YES2 (2007)
Proba-2 (2009–present)
Proba-V (2013–present)
IXV (2015)
LISA Pathfinder (2015–present)
OPS-SAT (Q3/Q4 2017)
Proba-3 (2018)
Lunar Lander (2018)

Cancelled and proposed

Failed

Future missions in italics

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