# IAI Improved Multi Purpose Satellite bus
*bus . products*

Israeli micro-satellite platform used for the VENuS spacecraft.

## Specifications
- **product status**: operational
- **deployment context**: orbital
- **manufacturer**: israel-aerospace-industries
- **bus**: {"form_factor":"micro-satellite bus","power_w":800,"platform_class":"mini"}
- **entity type**: bus
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-26
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: agency-sourced
- **provider**: israel-aerospace-industries
- **attributes**: {"kind":"bus","product_status":"operational","deployment_context":"orbital","manufacturer":"israel-aerospace-industries","description":"Israeli micro-satellite platform used for the VENuS spacecraft.","bus":"{\"form_factor\":\"micro-satellite bus\",\"power_w\":800,\"platform_class\":\"mini\"}"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
IAI Improved Multi Purpose Satellite bus is the Israeli micro-satellite bus associated with the VENuS Earth-observation spacecraft [^wmo-venus][^wikipedia-venus]. VENuS was a joint CNES and Israel Space Agency mission, with Israeli-side spacecraft responsibilities and IAI and Rafael manufacturing participation in public mission summaries [^wmo-venus][^wikipedia-venus]. The bus-family label is ambiguous between IMPS, Improved Multi Purpose Satellite, and OPSAT 3000 [^wikipedia-venus][^wmo-venus]. VENuS mission records give 260 kg launch mass and 800 W spacecraft power, placing the platform in the mini class [^wmo-venus]. The spacecraft carried the VSSC superspectral camera for high-resolution land observation in sun-synchronous orbit [^wmo-venus][^wikipedia-venus].

## Compositional position
- venus-isa-cnes (missions) --[mission_buses]--> IAI Improved Multi Purpose Satellite bus

## Sources
- [wmo-venus] | WMO OSCAR satellite record: VENuS | https://space.oscar.wmo.int/satellites/view/vens | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-26
- [wikipedia-venus] | VENuS mission overview | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VEN%CE%BCS | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-26

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