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VENµS (Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New MicroSatellite)

VENµS (also written VENuS in agency catalogues) is a high-resolution land and vegetation monitoring microsatellite launched in 2017 into a 720 km Sun-synchronous orbit with a 10:30 descending equator crossing and a two-day repeat.^[1]^[2]

Its Earth-observation payload is the VENµS SuperSpectral Camera, a 12-channel VNIR pushbroom instrument with 5.3 m ground sampling and a 28 km swath.^[3] The mission supports vegetation, crop, and land-cover applications through frequent high-resolution multispectral imaging, while a separate technology payload flies on the same spacecraft.^[2]^[3]

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current status	Extended operations
operator	Israel Space Agency
platform	IAI Improved Multi Purpose Satellite bus
launch vehicle	Arianespace Vega
Launched	2017-08-02
orbit type	Sun-synchronous, 720 km, 2-day repeat
swath km	28
revisit days	2
tasking supported	No

Supply chain position

built on platform IAI Improved Multi Purpose Satellite bus

operated by Israel Space Agency

launched on Arianespace Vega

related to Land cover change

related to Crop phenology

related to Crop stress and yield

related to Crop-type mapping

Sources

[1]Venµs - CNESagency doc2026-06-27
[2]WMO OSCAR satellite record: VENuSagency doc2026-06-21
[3]WMO OSCAR instrument record: VSSCagency doc2026-06-21
[4]VENµS mission overviewcommunity2026-06-21

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VENµS (Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New MicroSatellite). EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V. https://eo-atlas.org/missions/venus-isa-cnes (CC BY 4.0)

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@misc{eoatlas:missions:venus-isa-cnes,
  title = {VENµS (Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New MicroSatellite)},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/missions/venus-isa-cnes}
}